Global perspectives on Tarzan
Subtitle: from king of the jungle to international icon
By: edited by Annette Wannamaker and Michelle Ann Abate
Series: Routledge research in cultural and media studies -- 38
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780415897242; 9780203125014
Subjects: Tarzan; Tarzan (Fictitious character); Characters
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: Annette Wannamaker, Now Tarzan make war!: World War II B-movies, profits and propaganda; title: Ken Cerniglia, Tarzan swings onto Disney's Broadway; title: Jon C. Stott, Return to Tarzan: a Canadian childhood hero reconsidered; title: Richard Ivan Jobs, Tarzan under attack: Youth, comics, and cultural reconstruction in postwar France; title: Ronie Parciack, Contending simulacra: Tarzan in postcolonial India; title: Alon Raab and Eli Eshed, With a star of David he swings: Tarzan in the holy land; title: Clare Mulcahy, We would each like to be like Tarzan: re-examining female readers of Burroughs' Tarzan series; title: Michelle Smith, On the origin of men: savage boyhood in Tarzan of the apes; title: Aaron Clayton, Evolution and race on the island of Caspak: how Tarzan and T-rex decode manhood in the comic that time forgot.