Global perspectives on Tarzan from king of the jungle to international icon / edited by Annette Wannamaker and Michelle Ann Abate.

Other author Wannamaker, Annette.
Other author Abate, Michelle Ann, 1975-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew York : Routledge,
Descriptionx, 216 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
Burroughs, Edgar Rice, 1875-1950--Characters.
Tarzan (Fictitious character)

SeriesRoutledge research in cultural and media studies ; 38
Contents Michelle Ann Abate, An axe in the hands of a burly negro cleft the captain from forehead to chin: Tarzan of the apes and the American urban jungle -- Annette Wannamaker, Now Tarzan make war!: World War II B-movies, profits and propaganda -- Ken Cerniglia, Tarzan swings onto Disney's Broadway -- Jon C. Stott, Return to Tarzan: a Canadian childhood hero reconsidered -- Richard Ivan Jobs, Tarzan under attack: Youth, comics, and cultural reconstruction in postwar France -- Ronie Parciack, Contending simulacra: Tarzan in postcolonial India -- Alon Raab and Eli Eshed, With a star of David he swings: Tarzan in the holy land -- Clare Mulcahy, We would each like to be like Tarzan: re-examining female readers of Burroughs' Tarzan series -- Michelle Smith, On the origin of men: savage boyhood in Tarzan of the apes -- Aaron Clayton, Evolution and race on the island of Caspak: how Tarzan and T-rex decode manhood in the comic that time forgot.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011041276
ISBN9780415897242 (hbk)
ISBN9780203125014 (ebk)

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