The modern superhero in film and television : popular genre and American culture / Jeffrey A. Brown.
"Hollywood's live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense popularity reveals deep cultural concerns about politi...
| Uniform Title: | Routledge advances in comics studies ;
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| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2017.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in comics studies ;
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| Physical Description: | 181 pages ; 24 cm. |
| Format: | Book |
Contents:
- Introduction: the live action superhero genre
- Hollywood superheroes: commercial economy, spectacle and the universe
- Supermen and wonder women: gender ideals and live-action superheroes
- Superheroes rewriting 9/11 and remasculinizing America
- America, nostalgia and exceptionalism
- Diversity and marginalization
- Spoofs, parody and camp
- Conclusion: superhero fatigue?.