Superheroes beyond / Cormac McGarry, Liam Burke, Ian Gordon, Angela Ndalianis.

"In recent years, superheroes on the page and screen have garnered increasing research and wider interest. Nonetheless, many works fall back on familiar examples before arriving at predictable conclusions. Superheroes Beyond moves superhero research beyond expected examples. In this innovative colle...

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Other Authors: McGarry, Cormac (Editor)
Burke, Liam (Liam P.) (Editor)
Gordon, Ian, 1954- (Editor)
Ndalianis, Angela, 1960- (Editor)
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024]
Subjects:
Superheroes.
Superheroes > Social aspects.
Superhero films > History and criticism.
Superhero television programs > History and criticism.
Comic strip characters in motion pictures.
Comic books, strips, etc. > History and criticism.
Comic books, strips, etc. > Social aspects.
Comic book fans.
Superhéros.
Superhéros > Aspect social.
Films de superhéros > Histoire et critique.
Émissions de superhéros télévisées > Histoire et critique.
Bandes dessinées > Fans.
Physical Description:xiv, 270 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • Foreword: Planetary superheroes as collective daydream / Frederick Luis Aldama
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction / Cormac McGarry
  • Introduction: beyond men of steel / Angela Ndalianis
  • Chapter 1: All new, all different, or no normal? Marvel Comics and superhero diversity / Naja Later
  • Chapter 2: The heart of a hero: disability and humanity in the origin stories of Marvel Studios' superheroes / Alexandra Ostrowski Schilling
  • Chapter 3: Monstrosity, mutation, and the world without us / Octavia Cade
  • Chapter 4: Midnight's children and the "Fortress of Solitude" as superhero origin stories / Julian Novitz
  • Chapter 5: African American viewers watching "Black Panther: the power of representation" / Sheena C. Howard
  • Introduction: Beyond comic books / Ian Gordon
  • Chapter 6: Animating Sub-Mariner and Aquaman: generational taste and the moral panic of the 1968 television season / Djoymi Baker
  • Chapter 7: The "toy biz" of superhero action figures / Jason Bainbridge
  • Chapter 8: From comic books to courtroom: unmasking the intellectual property behind the superhero / Mitchell Adams
  • Chapter 9: Capes, tights, and motherships: superheroes and new transmedia star systems / Cormac McGarry
  • Chapter 10: Super fans or toxic madmen?: fantasy, reality, and marginalized identities in subversive "DIY superhero" indie films / Jack Teiwes
  • Introduction: beyond the United States
  • Chapter 11: We need another hero: the incompatibility of superheroes and Australia / Liam Burke
  • Chapter 12: Without seeing the dawn: monstrous (super) heroes and Philippine myths in Mervin Malonzo's "Tabi Po" / Maria Lorena M. Santos
  • Chapter 13: Is there a Colombian national superhero?: how Columbian superheroes help define ethnicity and race in a multicultural society / Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Hernan David Espinosa-Medina
  • Chapter 14: Where does "Black Panther's" music come from? Authorship, "The Other," and the musical representation of Africa in Hollywood / Dan Golding
  • Chapter 15: The Phantom in Aborginal Australia: educational comics, national identity, and indigeneity / Aaron Humphrey
  • About the contributors
  • Index.