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1 online resource |
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Routledge advances in comics studies |
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Routledge advances in comics studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Series Page; Title Page; Copyright Page; Contents; Acknowledgements; Author Biographies; Introducing the Superhero Body; 1 Women in Comics: Australian Centre for the Moving Image -- Superhero Identities Symposium; Identity; 2 Poison Ivy, Red in Tooth and Claw: Ecocentrism and Ecofeminism in the DC Universe; 3 "Let's start with a smile": Rape Culture in Marvel's Jessica Jones; 4 Empowered and Strong: Muslim Female Community in Ms. Marvel; Materiality; 5 Supervillainy at the Interface: Hollywood Supervillains and the Digital-Material Dialectic |
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6 Against Impossible Odds: Supervillain Bodies in Austin Grossman's Soon I Will Be Invincible and Matt Carter's Almost Infamous7 Are Zombies Superheroes?; Transformation; 8 When Superman Was Grown in a Tank; 9 Only Transform: The Monstrous Bodies of Superheroes; 10 SheZow: When the Superhero's Gender Play is Child's Play; 11 The Prehistory of the Superhero: Filibus, Fantômas, and Judex; Index |
| Summary |
Throughout the history of the genre, the superhero has been characterised primarily by physical transformation and physical difference. Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation explores the transformation of the superhero body across multiple media forms including comics, film, television, literature and the graphic novel. How does the body of the hero offer new ways to imagine identities? How does it represent or subvert cultural ideals? How are ideologies of race, gender and disability signified or destabilised in the physicality of the superhero? How are superhero bodies drawn, written and filmed across diverse forms of media and across histories? This volume collects essays that attend to the physicality of superheroes: the transformative bodies of superheroes, the superhero's position in urban and natural spaces, the dialectic between the superhero's physical and metaphysical self, and the superhero body's relationship with violence. This will be the first collection of scholarly research specifically dedicated to investigating the diversity of superhero bodies, their emergence, their powers, their secrets, their histories and their transformations |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
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 |
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Print version record |
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Superheroes.
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Superheroes in literature.
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Human body in literature.
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Human body in motion pictures.
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Superhero films -- History and criticism
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Superhero television programs -- History and criticism
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
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COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS -- Graphic Novels -- Superheroes.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Media Studies.
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Human body in literature
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Human body in motion pictures
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Superhero films
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Superhero television programs
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Superheroes
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Superheroes in literature
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Haslem, Wendy, editor.
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MacFarlane, Elizabeth, editor.
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Richardson, Sarah, 1985- editor.
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| LC no. |
2019003049 |
| ISBN |
9780429022272 |
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0429022271 |
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9780429663802 |
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0429663803 |
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9780429666520 |
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0429666527 |
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9780429661082 |
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0429661088 |
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9780429022289 |
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042902228X |
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