Superhero bodies : identity, materiality, transformation / edited by Wendy Haslem, Elizabeth MacFarlane and Sarah Richardson.
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, televi...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in comics studies.
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| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780429022272 0429022271 9780429663802 0429663803 9780429666520 0429666527 9780429661082 0429661088 9780429022289 042902228X |
| Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |
| Biographical or Historical Data: | 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. |