Watchmen and philosophy [electronic resource] : a Rorschach test

• Tác giả: Mark D White
• Ngôn ngữ: eng
• ISBN-10: 0470730285
• ISBN-13: 978-0470730287
• Ký hiệu phân loại: 741.5942 Cartoons, caricatures, comics
• Thông tin xuất bản: Hoboken, N.J. : John Wiley & Sons , 2009
• Mô tả vật lý: 1 online resource (ix, 227 p.)
• Bộ sưu tập: Kiến trúc, nghệ thuật, hội họa
• ID: 86309
• Chủ đề: 1. Comic books, strips, etc; 2. Comic books, strips, etc--Moral and ethical aspects; 3. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Anthologies; 4. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Contemporary Women; 5. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Crime & Mystery; 6. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Erotica; 7. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Fantasy; 8. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Gay & Lesbian; 9. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Historical Fiction; 10. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Horror; 11. COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS--Literary; 12. Electronic books; 13. Moore, Alan

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Tóm tắt

Alan Moore's Watchmen is set in 1985 and chronicles the alternative history of the United States where the US edges dangerously closer to nuclear war with the Soviet Union. Within this world exists a group of crime busters, who don elaborate costumes to conceal their identity and fight crime, and an intricate plot to kill and discredit these "superheroes.". Alan Moore's Watchmen popularized the graphic novel format, has been named one of Time magazine's top 100 novels, and is now being made into a highly anticipated movie adaptation. This latest book in the popular Blackwell Philosop