Superman Redux

Authors

  • Phillip Sipiora University of South Florida Author

Keywords:

“Superman Comes to the Supermarket”, John F. Kennedy, 1960 Democratic Convention, political journalism, photography, New Journalism

Abstract

Phillip Sipiora reviews Norman Mailer. JFK. Superman Comes to the Supermarket (Taschen), edited by Nina Weiner with an introduction by J. Michael Lennon, a lavish reissue of Mailer’s 1960 Esquire essay on the Democratic convention. Sipiora revisits the essay’s metaphors, its satire of delegates and the Biltmore, and its portrait of Kennedy as hero against the nation’s double life. He praises the volume’s hundreds of photographs by Cornell Capa, Garry Winogrand, and others and Lennon’s crisp introduction on Mailer’s fascination with Kennedy.

Author Biography

  • Phillip Sipiora, University of South Florida

    Phillip Sipiora is Professor of English and Film Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author or editor of five books and has published approximately three dozen scholarly essays. He has lectured nationally and internationally on twentieth-century literature and film and is the Founding Editor of The Mailer Review. He is the editor of a forthcoming volume, The Films of Ida Lupino (Edinburgh University Press, 2016).

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Published

2015-09-30

Issue

Vol. 9 No. 1 (2015): Maestro

Section

Book Reviews

How to Cite

Sipiora, Phillip. “Superman Redux”. The Mailer Review, vol. 9, no. 1, Sept. 2015, pp. 304–308, https://mailerreview.org/journal/article/view/531.