{"product_id":"book-fxw5","title":"Disguised as Clark Kent","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn this insightful and provocative book, comics-industry veteran Danny Fingeroth explores the backgrounds of the most well-known superheroes and their creators-largely young American Jewish men from Eastern European backgrounds. These innovators include Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Will Eisner, and Stan Lee and Jack Kirby.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJewish Identity has historically been about the push and pull toward and away from that very identity. As immigrants with a history of persecution, Jews came to America with their heads down but their eyes open, finding themselves presented with unprecedented freedom and opportunity.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eStill, there were limits, spoken and unspoken, which often pushed Jews into fields with a hint of \"second-class-ness\" to them. Among these was the comic-book industry, until then minus the breakout hit that would put the medium on the map. That phenomenon would be the superhero-specifically Superman-and the flood of others that followed, including Batman and Spider-Man.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn \u003cem\u003eDisguised as Clark Kent\u003c\/em\u003e, Fingeroth explores how the creators' Jewish backgrounds helped make superheroes the most familiar popular-culture icons of all, far beyond the comic books that spawned them-on TV, in movies, in electronic media-and in our very ideas about what it means to be a hero.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDrawn in part from original interviews with legendary creators as they reflect on their Jewish backgrounds-religious, ethnic, and cultural-\u003cem\u003eDisguised as Clark Kent\u003c\/em\u003e brings valuable insights into the fantasies that fuel our imaginations, and raises significant questions about the relationship of individual and group identity to the content of our collective dreams.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Blackstone Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Audiobook","offer_id":49290309501232,"sku":"BDfxw5","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio CD","offer_id":49290309534000,"sku":"ZEfxw5","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true},{"title":"Audio MP3-CD","offer_id":49290309566768,"sku":"ZMfxw5","price":35.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0879\/2784\/9264\/files\/fxw5-Square-cover.jpg?v=1782424417","url":"https:\/\/downpour.com\/products\/book-fxw5","provider":"Downpour","version":"1.0","type":"link"}