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Auteur(s) : Kruse, Zack. Auteur du texte  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Titre(s) : Mysterious travelers [Texte imprimé] : Steve Ditko and the search for a new liberal identity / Zack Kruse

Publication : Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, copyright 2021

Description matérielle : viii-275 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Collection : Great comics artists series

Lien à la collection : Great comics artists series  Voir toutes les notices liées

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-268) and index"Steve Ditko (1927-2018) is one of the most important contributors to American comic books. As the cocreator of Spider-Man and sole creator of Doctor Strange, Ditko made an indelible mark on American popular culture. Mysterious Travelers: Steve Ditko and the Search for a New Liberal Identity resets the conversation about his heady and powerful work. Always inward facing, Ditko's narratives employed superhero and supernatural fantasy in the service of self-examination, and with characters like the Question, Mr. A, and Static, Ditko turned ordinary superhero comics into philosophic treatises. Many of Ditko's philosophy-driven comics show a clear debt to ideas found in Ayn Rand's Objectivism. Unfortunately, readers often reduce Ditko's work to a mouthpiece for Rand's vision. Mysterious Travelers unsettles this notion. In this book, Zack Kruse argues that Ditko's philosophy draws on a complicated network of ideas that is best understood as mystic liberalism. Although Ditko is not the originator of mystic liberalism, his comics provide a unique window into how such an ideology operates in popular media. Examining selections of Ditko's output from 1953 to 1986, Kruse demonstrates how Ditko's comics provide insight into a unique strand of American thought that has had a lasting impact"

Sujet(s) : Ditko, Steve (1927-2018) -- Critique et interprétation  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  741.597 3 (23e éd.) = Albums de bande dessinée, romans graphiques, romans-photos, dessins humoristiques, caricatures, bandes dessinées - États-Unis  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9781496830531. - ISBN 1496830539. - ISBN 9781496830548. - ISBN 1496830547. - ISBN 9781496830555 (erroné). - ISBN 9781496830562 (erroné). - ISBN 9781496830579 (erroné). - ISBN 9781496830586 (erroné)

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Notice n° :  FRBNF46850127 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

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Table des matières : Preface: "All lives change" -- ; 1.. "From out of the depths!": rethinking the work of Steve Ditko -- ; 2.. Beyond what we are told is fact: mystic liberalism and closing the gap between "is" and "ought" -- ; 3.. Overwhelmed by a cloak of darkness: dark karma and cosmic intraspace in early Ditko comics -- ; 4.. "'Twas Steve's idea": a secret racial history and a search for the self with Dr. Strange -- ; 5.. Grounded in a more credible world: Spider-Man, Blue Beetle, the Question, and a more practical self-actualization -- ; 6.. The right to kill: the Question, Mr. A, and life versus anti-life -- ; 7.. These magazines are haunted! Steve Ditko beyond the silver age -- ; 8.. "If I like it, I hope somebody else likes it, too": mystic liberalism confronted in real and imagined worlds.

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