Adventure Comics and Youth Cultures in India

ISBN-13: 9781138358683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 226 str.

Raminder Kaur; Saif Eqbal

Opis

This pioneering book presents a history and ethnography of adventure comic books in India with a particular focus on vernacular superheroism. It chronicles popular and youth culture in the subcontinent from the pre- and post-liberalisation periods of the 1980s–90s to the contemporary era dominated by creative audio-video-digital outlets.

Spis treści

List of Plates and Figures. Acknowledgements 1. Action India 2. The Making of Modern Mythologies 3. The Golden Age of the Indian Superhero 4. Gendering Graphics 5. A Haven of Super Creativity 6. The Fantastic Familiar 7. The State of the Nation 8. A Forensics of Evil 9. Readers’ Worlds 10. In One of my Dreams, I Defeated America 11. Future Presents. Glossary of Key Indian Adventure Comic Book Characters. Index