Format:
Book
Title:
Neon visions : the comics of Howard Chaykin / Brannon Costello.
Author:
Costello, Brannon, 1975- author.
Call Number:
741.5973 Chaykin
Publisher, Date:
Baton Rouge : Louisiana State University Press, [2017]
©2017
Description:
x, 351 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Subjects:
Chaykin, Howard V. -- Criticism and interpretation.
Chaykin, Howard V.
Comic books, strips, etc -- Authorship.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Authorship.
Genre:
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Contents:
1. Putting it all back together (over and over) again: serialization and authenticity in American Flagg! -- 2. The shadow of the past: old utopias and the culture of nostalgia -- 3. Lost in the futurama: thinking objects and artificial subjects in time -- 4. "Flying fascists on our side": popular culture and fascist aesthetics in Blackhawk -- 5. Cherry one-sheets and Xeroxed Polaroids: masculinity, authenticity, and the noir of Black kiss -- 6. Fantasy solutions to real problems: Chaykin's superheroes -- 7. Challenging the known: revisions and renewals -- 8. The real thing: mirror images and body doubles in Black kiss 2.
ISBN:
9780807166642
0807166642
9780807168325
0807168327
* 9780807168066
* 9780807168073