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Breakout Session: Great Caesar's Ghost: Superhero Comics in Historical Perspective

Year: 2025

Type: article

Abstract: Superheroes are metaphors about the soaring human spirit, born of necessity in times of powerlessness and despair like the Great Depression. Their function is the same as the Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers movies from that era — to enable the downtrodden to fantasize about defying gravity in fancy duds. I'll discuss their history in popular culture and myth.

Source: The Keep (Eastern Illinois University)

Author: Hagen, Dan

Language: English

Topic: Comics and Graphic Narratives

Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts

Field: Arts and Humanities

Domain: Social Sciences

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W6989587464

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