Superhero Bodies (eBook, PDF)

Identity, Materiality, Transformation
Redaktion: Haslem, Wendy; Richardson, Sarah; MacFarlane, Elizabeth

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume attends to the physicality of superheroes: it examines how ideologies of race, gender and disability are signified or destabilized in the physicality of the superhero and presents an exploration of superheroes across multiple media forms including comics, film, television, literature and the graphic novel.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 206
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. November 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780429666520
• Artikelnr.: 54784418

Autorenporträt

Wendy Haslem researches and teaches in the Screen Studies program at the University of Melbourne. Elizabeth MacFarlane is a writer and lecturer in the Creative Writing program at the University of Melbourne. Sarah Richardson is a PhD candidate and tutor in the English Literature program at the University of Melbourne.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents 0. Introducing the Superhero Body by Elizabeth MacFarlane, Sarah
Richardson and Wendy Haslem 1. Women in Comics: edited transcript of 2016
conference panel Identity 2. Poison Ivy, Red in Tooth and Claw: Ecocentrism
and Ecofeminism in the DC Universe by Victoria Tedeschi 3. Let's Start with
a Smile: Rape Culture in Marvel's Jessica Jones by Verity Trott 4.
Empowered and Strong: Muslim Female Community in Ms. Marvel by Wajeehah
Aayeshah Materiality 5. Supervillainy at the Interface: Recent Hollywood
Supervillains and Digital-Material Dialectic by Jessica Balanzategui 6.
Against Impossible Odds: Supervillain Bodies in Austin Grossman's Soon I
Will Be Invincible and Matt Carter's Almost Infamous by Julian Novitz 7.
Are Zombies Superheroes? by Henry Kamerling Transformation 8. When Superman
was Grown in a Tank by Evie Kendal 9. Only Transform: The Monstrous Bodies
of Superheroes by Michael Kobre 10. SheZow: When the Superhero's Gender
Play is Child's Play by Diana Sandars 11. The Silent Superhero: Filibus,
Fantômas and Judex by Wendy Haslem