Screen LibraryComics as philosophy
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University Press of Mississippi,
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| Publisher Address: | Jackson |
| Publication Dates: | 2005. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | xix, 246 p.: ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
1578067944 (alk. paper) 9781578067947 (alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | J218 |
| CLC: |
J218.4-05 J218.2-05 |
| Call Number: | J218.2-05/C733 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-235) and index. What If? DC's Crisis and Leibnizian possible worlds / Jeff McLaughlin -- Describing and discarding "comics" as an impotent act of philosophical rigor / Robert C. Harvey -- "No harm in horror": ethical dimensions of the postwar comic book controversy / Amy Kiste Nyberg -- Truth be told: authorship and the creation of the Black Captain America / Stanford W. Carpenter -- Plato, Spider-Man and the meaning of life / Jeremy Barris -- Modernity, race, and the American superhero / Aldo Regalado -- Deconstructing the hero / Iain Thomson -- Jean-Paul Sartre meets Enid Coleslaw: existential themes in Ghost World / Laura Canis and Paul Canis -- Making the abstract Concrete: how a comic can bring to life the central problems of environmental philosophy / Kevin de Laplante -- The good government according to Tintin: long live old Europe? / Pierre Skilling -- Drawn into 9/11, but where have all the superheroes gone? / Terry Kading. |