Web-Spinning Heroics
Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man
Herausgeber: Weiner, Robert G.; Peaslee, Robert Moses
Web-Spinning Heroics
Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man
Herausgeber: Weiner, Robert G.; Peaslee, Robert Moses
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This volume collects a wide-ranging sample of fresh analyses of Spider-Man. It traverses boundaries of medium, genre, epistemology and discipline in essays both insightful and passionate that move forward the study of one of the world's most beloved characters. The editors have crafted the book for fans, creators and academics alike. Foreword by Tom DeFalco, with poetry and an afterword by Gary Jackson (winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize).
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This volume collects a wide-ranging sample of fresh analyses of Spider-Man. It traverses boundaries of medium, genre, epistemology and discipline in essays both insightful and passionate that move forward the study of one of the world's most beloved characters. The editors have crafted the book for fans, creators and academics alike. Foreword by Tom DeFalco, with poetry and an afterword by Gary Jackson (winner of the 2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize).
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- Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
- Seitenzahl: 272
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 518g
- ISBN-13: 9780786446278
- ISBN-10: 0786446277
- Artikelnr.: 35557703
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
- Verlag: McFarland and Company, Inc.
- Seitenzahl: 272
- Erscheinungstermin: 22. Mai 2012
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 15mm
- Gewicht: 518g
- ISBN-13: 9780786446278
- ISBN-10: 0786446277
- Artikelnr.: 35557703
- Herstellerkennzeichnung
- Produktsicherheitsverantwortliche/r
- Europaallee 1
- 36244 Bad Hersfeld
- gpsr@libri.de
Robert Moses Peaslee is an associate professor and chair of Journalism and Electronic Media at the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. His work has been published in several journals and he is coeditor of two previous essay collections on comics. Robert G. Weiner is the popular culture librarian at Texas Tech University. His work has been published in the Journal of Popular Culture, Public Library Quarterly, Journal of American Culture, International Journal of Comic Art and Popular Music and Society, and is the author/editor/coeditor of numerous books related to popular culture.
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: My Pal Pete
TOM DEFALCO
Elegy for Gwen Stacy
GARY JACKSON
Introduction
ROBERT G. WEINER and ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE
I. Historical, Cultural and Pedagogical Angles
Donald Glover for Spider-Man
PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM
Have Great Power, Greatly Irresponsible: Intergenerational Conflict in
1960s Amazing Spider-Man
PETER LEE
"Continually in the Making": Spider-Man's New York
MARTIN FLANAGAN
Hegemonic Implications of Science in Popular Media: Science Narratives and
Representations of Physics in the Spider-Man Film Trilogy
LISA HOLDERMAN
Teaching Peter Parker's Ghosts of Milton: Anxiety of Influence, the Trace,
and Platonic Knowing in Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1
JAMES BUCKY CARTER
II. Considering Specific Graphic Novels
Weaving Webs and True Lies: Revisiting Kraven's Last Hunt Through the Lens
of Brooklyn Dreams
DAVID WALTON
The Hermeneutics of Spider-Man: What Is Peter Parker Doing in Elizabethan
England?
CHRISTINA C. ANGEL
Strategies of Narration in Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Spider-Man: Blue
DEREK PARKER ROYAL
III. The J. Jonah Jameson Problem
Spider-Man: MENACE!!! Stan Lee, Censorship and the 100-Issue Revolution
AARON DRUCKER
J. Jonah Jameson-Hero or Villain? Spider-Man's Nemesis Hard to Pigeonhole
ANDREW A. SMITH
Spider-Management: A Critical Examination of the Business World of
Spider-Man
MATTHEW MCGOWAN and JEREMY SHORT
IV. Spider-Man and Other Sequential Art Characters
Anti-Heroes: Spider-Man and the Punisher
CORD A. SCOTT
The Sinister Six: Anti-Villains in an Anti-Heroic Narrative
RICK HUDSON
Spider-Man and Batman, Disordered Minds: Friendship Through Difference
PHILLIP BEVIN
V. Trauma Textual and Extra-Textual
The Loss of the Father: Trauma Theory and the Birth of Spider-Man
FORREST C. HELVIE
Artificial Mourning: The Spider-Man Trilogy and September 11th
TAMA LEAVER
VI. Issues of Gender in the Spider-verse
Three Stories, Three Movies and the Romances of Mary Jane and Spider-Man
ROBERT G. WEINER
Women's Pleasures Watching Spider-Man's Journeys
EMILY D. EDWARDS
The Incorrigible Aunt
ORA C. MCWILLIAMS
Spidey Meets Freud: Central Psychoanalytic Motifs in Spider-Man and
Spider-Man
ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE
VII. Under-Examined Spider-Texts
Reinterpreting Myths in Spider-Man: The Animated Series
DAVID RAY CARTER
Finding the Milieu of the Spider-Man Music
MARK MCDERMOTT
Games Are Not Convergence: Spider-Man 3, Game Design and the Lost Promise
of Digital Production and Convergence
CASEY O'DONNELL
Afterword
GARY JACKSON
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Foreword: My Pal Pete
TOM DEFALCO
Elegy for Gwen Stacy
GARY JACKSON
Introduction
ROBERT G. WEINER and ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE
I. Historical, Cultural and Pedagogical Angles
Donald Glover for Spider-Man
PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM
Have Great Power, Greatly Irresponsible: Intergenerational Conflict in
1960s Amazing Spider-Man
PETER LEE
"Continually in the Making": Spider-Man's New York
MARTIN FLANAGAN
Hegemonic Implications of Science in Popular Media: Science Narratives and
Representations of Physics in the Spider-Man Film Trilogy
LISA HOLDERMAN
Teaching Peter Parker's Ghosts of Milton: Anxiety of Influence, the Trace,
and Platonic Knowing in Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1
JAMES BUCKY CARTER
II. Considering Specific Graphic Novels
Weaving Webs and True Lies: Revisiting Kraven's Last Hunt Through the Lens
of Brooklyn Dreams
DAVID WALTON
The Hermeneutics of Spider-Man: What Is Peter Parker Doing in Elizabethan
England?
CHRISTINA C. ANGEL
Strategies of Narration in Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Spider-Man: Blue
DEREK PARKER ROYAL
III. The J. Jonah Jameson Problem
Spider-Man: MENACE!!! Stan Lee, Censorship and the 100-Issue Revolution
AARON DRUCKER
J. Jonah Jameson-Hero or Villain? Spider-Man's Nemesis Hard to Pigeonhole
ANDREW A. SMITH
Spider-Management: A Critical Examination of the Business World of
Spider-Man
MATTHEW MCGOWAN and JEREMY SHORT
IV. Spider-Man and Other Sequential Art Characters
Anti-Heroes: Spider-Man and the Punisher
CORD A. SCOTT
The Sinister Six: Anti-Villains in an Anti-Heroic Narrative
RICK HUDSON
Spider-Man and Batman, Disordered Minds: Friendship Through Difference
PHILLIP BEVIN
V. Trauma Textual and Extra-Textual
The Loss of the Father: Trauma Theory and the Birth of Spider-Man
FORREST C. HELVIE
Artificial Mourning: The Spider-Man Trilogy and September 11th
TAMA LEAVER
VI. Issues of Gender in the Spider-verse
Three Stories, Three Movies and the Romances of Mary Jane and Spider-Man
ROBERT G. WEINER
Women's Pleasures Watching Spider-Man's Journeys
EMILY D. EDWARDS
The Incorrigible Aunt
ORA C. MCWILLIAMS
Spidey Meets Freud: Central Psychoanalytic Motifs in Spider-Man and
Spider-Man
ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE
VII. Under-Examined Spider-Texts
Reinterpreting Myths in Spider-Man: The Animated Series
DAVID RAY CARTER
Finding the Milieu of the Spider-Man Music
MARK MCDERMOTT
Games Are Not Convergence: Spider-Man 3, Game Design and the Lost Promise
of Digital Production and Convergence
CASEY O'DONNELL
Afterword
GARY JACKSON
About the Contributors
Index
Table of Contents
Acknowledgments
Foreword: My Pal Pete
TOM DEFALCO
Elegy for Gwen Stacy
GARY JACKSON
Introduction
ROBERT G. WEINER and ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE
I. Historical, Cultural and Pedagogical Angles
Donald Glover for Spider-Man
PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM
Have Great Power, Greatly Irresponsible: Intergenerational Conflict in
1960s Amazing Spider-Man
PETER LEE
"Continually in the Making": Spider-Man's New York
MARTIN FLANAGAN
Hegemonic Implications of Science in Popular Media: Science Narratives and
Representations of Physics in the Spider-Man Film Trilogy
LISA HOLDERMAN
Teaching Peter Parker's Ghosts of Milton: Anxiety of Influence, the Trace,
and Platonic Knowing in Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1
JAMES BUCKY CARTER
II. Considering Specific Graphic Novels
Weaving Webs and True Lies: Revisiting Kraven's Last Hunt Through the Lens
of Brooklyn Dreams
DAVID WALTON
The Hermeneutics of Spider-Man: What Is Peter Parker Doing in Elizabethan
England?
CHRISTINA C. ANGEL
Strategies of Narration in Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Spider-Man: Blue
DEREK PARKER ROYAL
III. The J. Jonah Jameson Problem
Spider-Man: MENACE!!! Stan Lee, Censorship and the 100-Issue Revolution
AARON DRUCKER
J. Jonah Jameson-Hero or Villain? Spider-Man's Nemesis Hard to Pigeonhole
ANDREW A. SMITH
Spider-Management: A Critical Examination of the Business World of
Spider-Man
MATTHEW MCGOWAN and JEREMY SHORT
IV. Spider-Man and Other Sequential Art Characters
Anti-Heroes: Spider-Man and the Punisher
CORD A. SCOTT
The Sinister Six: Anti-Villains in an Anti-Heroic Narrative
RICK HUDSON
Spider-Man and Batman, Disordered Minds: Friendship Through Difference
PHILLIP BEVIN
V. Trauma Textual and Extra-Textual
The Loss of the Father: Trauma Theory and the Birth of Spider-Man
FORREST C. HELVIE
Artificial Mourning: The Spider-Man Trilogy and September 11th
TAMA LEAVER
VI. Issues of Gender in the Spider-verse
Three Stories, Three Movies and the Romances of Mary Jane and Spider-Man
ROBERT G. WEINER
Women's Pleasures Watching Spider-Man's Journeys
EMILY D. EDWARDS
The Incorrigible Aunt
ORA C. MCWILLIAMS
Spidey Meets Freud: Central Psychoanalytic Motifs in Spider-Man and
Spider-Man
ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE
VII. Under-Examined Spider-Texts
Reinterpreting Myths in Spider-Man: The Animated Series
DAVID RAY CARTER
Finding the Milieu of the Spider-Man Music
MARK MCDERMOTT
Games Are Not Convergence: Spider-Man 3, Game Design and the Lost Promise
of Digital Production and Convergence
CASEY O'DONNELL
Afterword
GARY JACKSON
About the Contributors
Index
Acknowledgments
Foreword: My Pal Pete
TOM DEFALCO
Elegy for Gwen Stacy
GARY JACKSON
Introduction
ROBERT G. WEINER and ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE
I. Historical, Cultural and Pedagogical Angles
Donald Glover for Spider-Man
PHILLIP LAMARR CUNNINGHAM
Have Great Power, Greatly Irresponsible: Intergenerational Conflict in
1960s Amazing Spider-Man
PETER LEE
"Continually in the Making": Spider-Man's New York
MARTIN FLANAGAN
Hegemonic Implications of Science in Popular Media: Science Narratives and
Representations of Physics in the Spider-Man Film Trilogy
LISA HOLDERMAN
Teaching Peter Parker's Ghosts of Milton: Anxiety of Influence, the Trace,
and Platonic Knowing in Ultimate Spider-Man Volume 1
JAMES BUCKY CARTER
II. Considering Specific Graphic Novels
Weaving Webs and True Lies: Revisiting Kraven's Last Hunt Through the Lens
of Brooklyn Dreams
DAVID WALTON
The Hermeneutics of Spider-Man: What Is Peter Parker Doing in Elizabethan
England?
CHRISTINA C. ANGEL
Strategies of Narration in Jeph Loeb and Tim Sale's Spider-Man: Blue
DEREK PARKER ROYAL
III. The J. Jonah Jameson Problem
Spider-Man: MENACE!!! Stan Lee, Censorship and the 100-Issue Revolution
AARON DRUCKER
J. Jonah Jameson-Hero or Villain? Spider-Man's Nemesis Hard to Pigeonhole
ANDREW A. SMITH
Spider-Management: A Critical Examination of the Business World of
Spider-Man
MATTHEW MCGOWAN and JEREMY SHORT
IV. Spider-Man and Other Sequential Art Characters
Anti-Heroes: Spider-Man and the Punisher
CORD A. SCOTT
The Sinister Six: Anti-Villains in an Anti-Heroic Narrative
RICK HUDSON
Spider-Man and Batman, Disordered Minds: Friendship Through Difference
PHILLIP BEVIN
V. Trauma Textual and Extra-Textual
The Loss of the Father: Trauma Theory and the Birth of Spider-Man
FORREST C. HELVIE
Artificial Mourning: The Spider-Man Trilogy and September 11th
TAMA LEAVER
VI. Issues of Gender in the Spider-verse
Three Stories, Three Movies and the Romances of Mary Jane and Spider-Man
ROBERT G. WEINER
Women's Pleasures Watching Spider-Man's Journeys
EMILY D. EDWARDS
The Incorrigible Aunt
ORA C. MCWILLIAMS
Spidey Meets Freud: Central Psychoanalytic Motifs in Spider-Man and
Spider-Man
ROBERT MOSES PEASLEE
VII. Under-Examined Spider-Texts
Reinterpreting Myths in Spider-Man: The Animated Series
DAVID RAY CARTER
Finding the Milieu of the Spider-Man Music
MARK MCDERMOTT
Games Are Not Convergence: Spider-Man 3, Game Design and the Lost Promise
of Digital Production and Convergence
CASEY O'DONNELL
Afterword
GARY JACKSON
About the Contributors
Index