Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
Description
This wide-ranging study explores how science fiction and superhero comics became imaginative vehicles for expressing paranormal experiences, altered states of consciousness, and encounters with the inexplicable. Moving from Jack Kirby’s cosmic visions and Philip K. Dick’s reality-bending fiction to Alan Moore’s occult explorations and accounts of alien contact, it reveals the personal and cultural forces behind some of modern pop culture’s most enduring myths. The book considers the influence of Cold War science, religion, mythology, and anticomics criticism, presenting comics and speculative fiction as ways of questioning the limits of conventional knowledge. Insightful and provocative, it offers a hidden history of American culture shaped by the possibility of realities beyond everyday perception.
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paperback
University of Chicago Press
Published Jan 1, 2011
370 pages
ISBN: 9780226453835
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First Published
2011
Language
eng
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