Global perspectives on Tarzan : from king of the jungle to international icon / edited by Annette Wannamaker and Michelle Ann Abate.
This collection seeks to understand the long-lasting and global appeal of Tarzan: Why is a story about a feral boy, who is raised by apes in the African jungle, so compelling and so adaptable to different cultural contexts and audiences?
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
Routledge,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge research in cultural and media studies ;
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Table of 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.