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CAPTAIN AMERICA, MASCULINITY, AND VIOLENCE Television and Popular Culture Robert J. Thompson, Series Editor OTHER TITLES IN TELEVISION AND POPULAR CULTURE Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903–2003 Roland Leander Williams Jr. Inside the TV Writer’s Room: Practical Advice for Succeeding in Television Lawrence Meyers, ed. Interrogating The Shield Nicholas Ray, ed. Reading Joss Whedon Rhonda V. Wilcox, Tanya R. Cochran, Cynthea Masson, and David Lavery, eds. Screwball Television: Critical Perspectives on Gilmore Girls David Scott Diffrient and David Lavery, eds. “Something on My Own”: Gertrude Berg and American Broadcasting, 1929–1956 Glenn D. Smith Jr. TV on Strike: Why Hollywood Went to War over the Internet Cynthia Littleton Watching T.V.: Six Decades of American Television, expanded second edition Harry Castleman and Walter J. Podrazik J. Richard Stevens CAP TA IN A M E R I C A, MASCULINITY, VIOLENCE AND THE EVOLUTION OF A NATIONAL ICON SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY PRESS Copyright © 2015 by Syracuse University Press Syracuse, New York 13244-5290 All Rights Reserved First Edition 2015 15 16 17 18 19 20 6 5 4 3 2 1 ∞ The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences—Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z39.48-1992. For a listing of books published and distributed by Syracuse University Press, visit www.SyracuseUniversityPress.syr.edu. ISBN: 978-0-8156-3395-2 (cloth) 978-0-8156-5320-2 (e-book) Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Stevens, J. Richard, author. Captain America, masculinity, and violence : the evolution of a national icon / J. Richard Stevens. — First edition. pages cm. — (Television and popular culture) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8156-3395-2 (cloth : alk. paper) — ISBN 978-0-8156-5320-2 (e-book) 1. America, Captain (Fictitious character) 2. Superheroes in literature. 3. Masculinity in literature. 4. Violence in literature. 5. Comic books, strips, etc.—United States—History and criticism. I. Title. PN6728.C35S77 2015 741.5'973—dc23 2015005191 Manufactured in the United States of America (cid:2) publ ish ed wit h a g r ant f r om Fig ur e Foundat ion sover eig nt y cr own, odysse y peopl e. To Peter, the little fan who continues to instruct me J. Richard Stevens is an associate professor in the Department of Media Stud- ies at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research delves into the intersection of ideological formation and media message dissemination. This work comprises studies on how cultural messages are formed and passed through popular culture, how tech- nology infrastructure affects the delivery of media messages, how communication tech- nology policy is developed, and how media and technology platforms  are changing American public discourse. Contents PREFACE xi ★ 1. Introduction: Sentinel of Liberty 1 ★ 2. The Anti-Hitler Crusader (1940–1949) 24 ★ 3. Commie Smasher! (1953–1954) 57 ★ 4. The Man out of Time (1963–1969) 75 ★ 5. The Liberal Crusader (1969–1979) 98 ★ 6. The Hypercommercialized Leader (1979–1990) 124 ★ 7. The Superficial Icon (1990–2002) 183 ★ 8. Captain America’s Responses to the War on Terror (2002–2007) 210 ★ 9. The Death and Rebirths of Captain America (2007–2014) 256 ★ NOTES 297 ★ BIBLIOGRAPHY 341 ★ INDEX 377 ★

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Since 1940, Captain America has battled his enemies in the name of American values, and as those values have changed over time, so has Captain America's character. Because the comic book world fosters a close fan-creator dialogue, creators must consider their ever-changing readership. Comic book art
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