Haslem, Wendy

Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation

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ISBN 13:
9780367582869
author:
Haslem, Wendy
format:
Paperback / softback
publisher:
Routledge
language:
English
Publication Year:
2020
Pages:
194
Dimensions:
22.9 x 15 x 0.8 centimeters (0.3
Genre:
Nonfiction, Social Sciences, Popular Culture,
Condition:
New
Availability:
Item usually sent within 10 working days
£47.16

Description

Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation explores how the physical transformation and difference of superheroes offer new ways to imagine identities. This volume collects essays that examine the superhero body across multiple media forms, including comics, film, television, literature, and graphic novels. The collection investigates the diversity of superhero bodies, their emergence, powers, secrets, histories, and transformations. It considers how the superhero's physicality represents or subverts cultural ideals, and how ideologies of race, gender, and disability are signified or destabilized in the physicality of superheroes. Through its analysis, Superhero Bodies sheds light on the complex relationships between the superhero body, urban and natural spaces, violence, and the self.

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