Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation (Routledge Advances in Comics Studies)

Synopsis

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.

Copyright:

2019

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

194 Pages

ISBN-13:

9780429666520

Related ISBNs:

9780429022289, 9781138389892, 9781138389892

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

03/23/20

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N/A

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Science Fiction and Fantasy, Social Studies

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This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Wendy Haslem

Edited by:

Elizabeth MacFarlane

Edited by:

Sarah Richardson