The Superhero Multiverse
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The Superhero Multiverse

Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media

  1. 323 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

The Superhero Multiverse

Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media

About this book

The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly, it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrativeā€”including the relationship between 'superhero comics' and 'superhero films', the comics roots of superhero media, matters of canon and hybridity, and issues of recycling and stereotyping in superhero films and media texts. Secondly, it considers how these intersecting textual and cultural preoccupations are intrinsic to the process of remaking and re-adapting superheroes, and brings attention to multiple ways of materializing these iconic figures in our contemporary context.

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Information

Publisher
Lexington Books
Year
2021
Edition
1
eBook ISBN
9781978750463
Topic
Social Sciences
Subtopic
Media Studies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Introduction
  4. Part I. ACROSS PLATFORMS AND FORMATS
  5. Ch01. From Cinematic to Podcast Universe
  6. Ch02. The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion
  7. Ch03. Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities
  8. Ch04. ā€œI Feel Like Iā€™m Getting My Wonder Woman Backā€
  9. Ch05. Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero Cinema
  10. Part II. TRANSFORMATIVE MEANINGS
  11. Ch06. Reanimating Witchcraft
  12. Ch07. Resurrecting the Hero
  13. Ch08. Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica Jones
  14. Ch09. Super-heroine Objectification
  15. Ch10. An ā€œExtra-Ordinaryā€ Adaptation
  16. Ch11. Battle of the Black Superheroes
  17. Part III. TRANSNATIONAL DIALOGUES AND EVOLVING POLITICAL CONTEXTS
  18. Ch12. From ā€œBat-Mangaā€ to ā€œAttack on Avengersā€
  19. Ch13. Kamen Rider, Masked and Unmasked
  20. Ch14. Spider-Man, The Panopticon, and The Normalization of Mass Surveillance
  21. Ch15. Adapting Judge Dredd
  22. Ch16. All the Presidentā€™s Supermen
  23. Index
  24. About the Contributors

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