The ages of the X-Men : essays on the children of the atom in changing times /
edited by Joseph J. Darowski.
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2014]
- viii, 240 pages ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction -- Origin of the species: popular science, Dr. Hermann Muller and the X-Men / Evil mutants will stop at nothing to gain control of mankind!: X-Men, communists, and Cold War containment culture / Call for community: Charles Xavier\'s School for Gifted Youngsters as hippie community experience / When business improved art: the 1975 relaunch of Marvel\'s mutant heroes / From kitty to cat: Kitty Pryde and the phases of feminism / Days of future past: segregation, oppression and technology in X-Men and America / Mutant hellspawn or more human than you? The X-Men respond to televangelism / From terrorist to Tzadik: reading comic books as post-Shoah literature in light of Magneto\'s Jewish backstory / Sexy art, speculative commerce: The X-Men #1 launch extravaganza / Fatal attractions: Wolverine, the hegemonic male and the crisis of masculinity in the 1990s / Generation X: mutants made to order / What happens after Xavier?: millenial fears and the age of apocalypse / Race and violence from the clear line school: bodies and the celebrity satire of X-Statix / Mutating metaphors: addressing the limits of biological narratives of sexuality / Grant Morrison\'s mutants and the post-9/11 culture of fear / From Columbine to Xavier\'s: restaging the media narrative as superhero fiction / No mutant left behind: lessons from New X-Men: Academy X / Autism and the astonishing X-Men / Prophet of hope and change: the mutant minority in the age of Obama / About the contributors -- Index. Brad J. Ricca -- John Darowski -- Jean-Phillipe Zanco -- Joseph J. Darowski -- Margaret Galvan -- Clancy Smith -- Jacob Rennaker -- Nicholaus Pumphrey -- Timothy Elliott and Robert Dennis Watkins -- Gerri Mahn -- David Allan Duncan -- Jeff Geers -- Adam Capitano -- Christian Norman -- Eric Garneau and Maura Foley -- Nicolas Labarre -- Rich Shivener -- Todd Kimball Mack -- Morgan B. O\'Rourke and Daniel J. O\'Rourke --
With storylines that often contain overt social messages within its mutant metaphor, X-Men is often credited with having more depth than the average superhero property. Topics for critical analysis ranging from Communism to celebrity culture to school violence are addressed by scholars who provide new insights into one of America\'s most significant popular culture products--