Alan Moore : a critical guide /: a critical guide. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Jackson Ayres.
• Authors: Ayres, Jackson
• Contents: DedicationSeries Editor's PrefaceList of FiguresAcknowledgments1. IntroductionDo We Need Moore?The Original WriterA Guide to this Guide2. Historical and Biographical ContextsMage of the MidlandsThatcherismThe British InvasionCreator Rights3. Key Texts, Part OneInvading British Comics Origins 2000 A.D.: Short Stories, Skizz, DR and Quinch, and The Ballad of Halo Jones The Bojeffries SagaReinventing Superheroes: Britain Marvelman/MiraclemanCaptain BritainV for Vendetta Reinventing Superheroes: America The Saga of the Swamp Thing Whatever Happened to the Man of Tomorrow? The Killing Joke Watchmen4. Key Texts, Part TwoHorrors of History From Hell A Small Killing Big Numbers Brought to LightRe-Imagining Superheroes 1963 Supreme Moore's '90s SuperheroesCultural Commons 'In Pictopia' Lost Girls The League of Extraordinary GentlemenAmerica's Best Comics Tom Strong Tomorrow Stories Top 10 PrometheaHistories of HorrorLovecraft Cycle: The Courtyard, Neonomicon, and Providence Crossed + 100 Cinema Purgatorio5. Critical QuestionsThemes and TechniquesIntertextualityMagicPsychogeographyEnglishnessRepresentations Race Sexuality Sexual Violence6. Social and Cultural ImpactAuthorship and OwnershipThe Revised SuperheroMature Readers?Politics and/of ComicsCultural RemixingMoore After Comics, Comics After MooreGlossaryWorks CitedIndex.
• Publisher Details: London : Bloomsbury Academic
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 741.5942; Literary studies: from c 1900; Popular culture; Literary Criticism -- Comics & Graphic Novels; Literary Criticism -- Science Fiction & Fantasy; Comic book & cartoon art; Criticism and interpretation
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781350060487; 9781350060494
• Related ISBNs: 9781350060470; 9781350060463
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