Disguised As Clark Kent HC
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"In this insightful and provocative book, comics-industry veteran Danny Fingeroth explores the backgrounds of the most well-known superheroes and their creators--largely young American Jewish men from Eastern European backgrounds.
In DISGUISED AS CLARK KENT, Fingeroth explores how the creators' Jewish backgrounds helped make superheroes the most familiar popular-culture icons of all, far beyond the comic books that spawned them--on TV, in movies, in electronic media--and in our very ideas about what it means to be a hero.
Drawn in part from original interviews with legendary creators as they reflect on their Jewish backgrounds--religious, ethnic, and cultural--DISGUISED AS CLARK KENT brings valuable insights into the fantasies that fuel our imaginations, and raises significant questions about the relationship of individual and group identity to the content of our collective dreams."
