Superhero Bodies by Wendy Haslem
This volume attends to the physicality of superheroes: it examines how ideologies of race, gender and disability are signified or destabilized in the physicality of the superhero and presents an exploration of superheroes across multiple media forms including comics, film, television, literature and the graphic novel.-
Representing Acts of Violence in Comics
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Urban Comics
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Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity
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Immigrants and Comics
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Empirical Comics Research
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Ilan Manouach in Review
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Superheroes and Excess
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Superman and Comic Book Brand Continuity
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Reading Art Spiegelman
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Contexts of Violence in Comics
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Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books
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Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative
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The Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative
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Comics Studies Here and Now
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Comics Beyond Text and Image
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Vertigo Comics
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Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives
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The Modern Superhero in Film and Television
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The Narratology of Comic Art
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Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love
"In many ways, this book builds on the best work in the field currently, extending the argument and debate around the topics of identity and representation, and provides a refreshing reminder of one of the important elements of the superhero genre, the superhero body" --John McGuire, Western Sydney University, Australia
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.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781138389892 |
| ISBN 10 | 1138389897 |
| Title | Superhero Bodies |
| Author | Wendy Haslem |
| Series | Routledge Advances In Comics Studies |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Routledge |
| Year published | 2018-11-20 |
| Number of pages | 194 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |