| 书目名称 | Re-Constructing the Man of Steel | | 副标题 | Superman 1938–1941, | | 编辑 | Martin Lund | | 视频video | | | 概述 | Presents compelling encouragement to readers to reconsider the application of contemporary reading of the Jewish experience onto comics in the United States.Draws attention to the imprecision and inco | | 丛书名称 | Contemporary Religion and Popular Culture | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | In this book, Martin Lund challenges contemporary claims about the original Superman’s supposed Jewishness and offers a critical re-reading of the earliest Superman comics. Engaging in critical dialogue with extant writing on the subject, Lund argues that much of recent popular and scholarly writing on Superman as a Jewish character is a product of the ethnic revival, rather than critical investigations of the past, and as such does not stand up to historical scrutiny. In place of these readings, this book offers a new understanding of the Superman created by Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster in the mid-1930s, presenting him as an authentically Jewish American character in his own time, for good and ill..On the way to this conclusion, this book questions many popular claims about Superman, including that he is a golem, a Moses-figure, or has a Hebrew name. In place of such notions, Lund offers contextual readings of Superman as he first appeared, touchingon, among other ideas, Jewish American affinities with the Roosevelt White House, the whitening effects of popular culture, Jewish gender stereotypes, and the struggles faced by Jewish Americans during the historical peak of American an | | 出版日期 | Book 2016 | | 关键词 | Superman; comics; american judaism; jewish studies; graphic novel; religion and society | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-42960-1 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-319-82705-6 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-319-42960-1Series ISSN 2945-7777 Series E-ISSN 2945-7785 | | issn_series | 2945-7777 | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016 |
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