[Comicsstudiessociety] Daniel Stein's Authorizing Superhero Comics (Ohio State, 2021) - Book for review from IJOCA, USA only

[Mike Rhode]

The book has been claimed, thank you.

Mike

On Tue, Sep 14, 2021 at 12:43 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

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> Authorizing Superhero Comics
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> On the Evolution of a Popular Serial Genre
> Daniel Stein
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> 306 pp. 6 x 9
> 28 illustrations
> * Pub Date:* August, 2021
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> *Subjects:* Comics Studies
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> *Series:* Studies in Comics and Cartoons
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> “*Authorizing Superhero Comics* is a truly fascinating piece of
> innovative scholarship that approaches a salient part of comics history and
> culture from the perspective of actor-network theory, offering important
> insights into the (para)textual construction of authorship in superhero
> comics and beyond.” —Jan-Noël Thon, author of *Transmedial Narratology
> and Contemporary Media Culture*
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> “Daniel Stein has produced a meticulously argued, well-researched, and
> methodologically sound study, which I believe will resonate with anyone
> studying superheroes, comics, and popular culture more generally.” —José
> Alaniz, author of *Death, Disability, and the Superhero: The Silver Age
> and Beyond*
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> *Authorizing Superhero Comics* examines the comic book superhero as a
> lasting phenomenon of US popular serial storytelling. Moving beyond linear-
> or creator-centered models of genre development, Daniel Stein identifies
> authorization conflicts that have driven the genre’s evolution from the
> late 1930s to the present. These conflicts include paratextually mediated
> exchanges between officially authorized comic book producers and
> alternatively authorized fans that trouble the distinction between
> production and its reception; storyworld-building processes that subsume
> producers and fans into a collective rooted in a common style; parodies
> that ensure the genre’s longevity by deflating criticism through
> self-reflexive humor; and collecting and archiving as forms of memory
> management that align the genre’s past with the demands of the present.
> Taking seriously the serial agencies of the superhero comic book as a
> material artifact with a particular mediality, the study analyzes letter
> columns, editorial commentary, fanzines, encyclopedias, and other forms of
> comic book communication as critical frameworks for understanding the
> evolution of the genre—assessing rarely covered archival sources alongside
> some of the most treasured figures from the superhero’s multi-decade
> history, from Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman and Captain America.
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