Comic Connections

Analyzing Hero and Identity

Häftad, Engelska, 2017

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Comics are all around campuses everyday, and with students arriving less prepared to tackle basics like reading, writing, and analyzing, this text helps connect what students enjoy to the classroom. Comic Connections: Analyzing Hero and Identity is designed to help teachers from middle school through college find a new strategy that they can use right away as part of their curricular goals. Each chapter has three pieces: comic relevance, classroom connections, and concluding thoughts; this format allows a reader to pick-and-choose where to start. Some readers might want to delve into the history of a comic to better understand characters and their usefulness, while other readers might want to pick up an activity, presentation, or project that they can fold into that day’s lesson. This book focuses on defining heroic traits in popular characters such as Superman, Batman, or Daredevil, while offering a scholarly perspective on how to analyze character and identity in ways that would complement any literary classroom.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2017-01-16
Mått165 x 236 x 11 mm
Vikt236 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor154
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781475828023

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IntroductionChapter 1: Superman Made “Real”: Teaching the Hero Cycle with Kingdom ComeCarissa Pokorny-Golden and Karen SahaydakChapter 2: The Man With Identities: Utilizing Daredevil as an Artifact for Literary AnalysisAlex RomagnoliChapter 3: Who is the Greatest Superhero? Using Comics to Explore the Concept of HeroismGian S. PagnucciChapter 4: Truth, Justice, and the American Way: Exploring American Identity Throughout History in Superman NarrativesJ. Eric HastyChapter 5: Who We Are vs. Who We Wish To Be: Examining Heroism through Comics and Canonical LiteratureEric Federspiel and Luke RodesilerChapter 6: Visualizing the Hero Complex: Using Batman Year One for Visual and Character AnalysisMichael Cook and Jeffrey S. J. KirchoffChapter 7: Teaching the Body of the Nation: Captain America and MasculinityLee EastonAbout the Author

In a creative and complex endeavor, Sandra Eckard has once again crafted a text that not only enhances the educator’s arsenal of tools but intrigues the lay reader. Bridging popular artifacts and intellectual space, she had aptly brings the superhero into the classroom as a purveyor of knowledge, source of encouragement, and venue of creative cross-disciplinary discussion. Battles of Batman and Superman are not just conflicts, instead they illustrate to the student benefits and values of literature, morals, principles of deduction, and most importantly they teach the value of critical thought in determining outcomes and connectivity of knowledge to surrounding events, locales, and concepts.