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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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2019.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in comics studies.
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Table of 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.
- 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.