Killer Bodies
The Rise and Fall of "Bad Girl" Comics
Seiten
2025
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4197-0 (ISBN)
Rutgers University Press (Verlag)
978-1-9788-4197-0 (ISBN)
Killer Bodies offers a history of the single most critically derided subgenre in American superhero comics: the "bad girl" comics of the 1990s, which chronicled the blood-soaked adventures of barely dressed and improbably proportioned action heroines for an audience of adolescent boys. While not in any way attempting to rehabilitate the genre, which for the most part amply deserved its reputation as sexist and borderline pornographic, this book situates it within its original cultural context, as the result of a matrix of influences that included third-wave feminism, neopaganism, "girl power," the rise of the internet, the growing popularity of manga, supermodel beauty ideals, and the mainstreaming of pornography. It explores why and how the figure of the antiheroic, physically aggressive, sexually objectified heroine arose within American comics culture, and the commercial and ideological factors that led to the genre's rapid rise and equally rapid decline amidst the crisis-racked comics industry of the mid-1990s.
Joseph Crawford is an associate professor of English at the University of Exeter, in the UK. He is the author of five books, including The Twilight of the Gothic and Inspiration and Insanity in British Poetry.
Introduction 1
1 Secret Origins: The Birth of the “Bad Girl” Genre 24
2 Killer Bodies: “Bad Girls” and the American
Comics Industry 54
3 Revolution Girl Style: “Bad Girl” Comics and
Third-Wave
Feminism 85
4 Girl Power: Postfeminist “Bad Girl” Comics 120
5 After
the Fall: “Bad Girl” Comics Since 1997 153
Conclusion: How Bad Were
the “Bad Girls”? 171
Works Cited 177
Index 000
| Erscheinungsdatum | 11.12.2025 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | 17 color and 6 B-W images |
| Verlagsort | New Brunswick NJ |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 156 x 235 mm |
| Gewicht | 454 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-9788-4197-3 / 1978841973 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-9788-4197-0 / 9781978841970 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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