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Disguised as Clark Kent audiobook
- By: Danny Fingeroth
- Narrator: Danny Fingeroth
- Category: General, History
- Length: 7 hours 31 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 2022
- Language: English
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Disguised as Clark Kent Audiobook Summary
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. These innovators include Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.
Jewish Identity has historically been about the push and pull toward and away from that very identity. As immigrants with a history of persecution, Jews came to America with their heads down but their eyes open, finding themselves presented with unprecedented freedom and opportunity.
Still, there were limits, spoken and unspoken, which often pushed Jews into fields with a hint of “second-class-ness” to them. Among these was the comic-book industry, until then minus the breakout hit that would put the medium on the map. That phenomenon would be the superhero–specifically Superman–and the flood of others that followed, including Batman and Spider-Man.
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.
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Disguised as Clark Kent Audiobook Narrator
Danny Fingeroth is the narrator of Disguised as Clark Kent audiobook that was written by Danny Fingeroth
DANNY FINGEROTH was an award-winning writer and editor at Marvel Comics. A highly-regarded pop culture critic and historian, he is the author of books including Superman on the Couch: What Superheroes Really Tell Us About Ourselves and Our Society and co-editor of The Stan Lee Universe, an annotated collection of Lee-rarities from his personal archives. Fingeroth worked with Lee on numerous projects and conducted original, in-depth interviews with him (and many others) in the course of researching A Marvelous Life. Fingeroth has lectured on comics at Columbia University, the Smithsonian Institute, and at Milan’s MiMaster Institute, among many other venues.
About the Author(s) of Disguised as Clark Kent
Danny Fingeroth is the author of Disguised as Clark Kent
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Disguised as Clark Kent Full Details
| Narrator | Danny Fingeroth |
| Length | 7 hours 31 minutes |
| Author | Danny Fingeroth |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Blackstone Publishing |
| Release date | April 26, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9798200964178 |
Additional info
The publisher of the Disguised as Clark Kent is Blackstone Publishing. The imprint is Blackstone Publishing. It is supplied by Blackstone Publishing. The ISBN-13 is 9798200964178.
Global Availability
This book is only available in the United States.
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