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Brode, Douglas, ed. Analyzing the Marvel Universe: Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations. Jefferson: McFarland, 2024. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-1-4766-9066-7
BibTeX citation key: Brode2024
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Keywords: Collection of essays, Comic book industry, Marvel, USA
Creators: Brode
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Abstract
Marvel, like other media “universes,” is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity. Within media studies, elements of popular culture once dismissed as low-brow entertainment are now studied with the seriousness that has always been afforded classics like Shakespeare’s plays and ancient myth. Indeed, DC and Marvel might be thought of as competing myth systems.
This book is a collection of diverse essays covering all aspects of the Marvel Universe, from in-print graphic novels to film and television variations. Contributors present in-depth, original and inclusive interpretations of numerous individual elements of Marvel, including analysis of key characters, themes and aesthetic elements. They also offer a vision of the essential “meaning” of Marvel, including aspects that set it apart from the DC Universe and other media. Individual readings apply feminist, ethnic, and queer theory, among others, and deal with the lesser known aspects of Marvel’s offerings in order to provide the definitive collection on this subject. Beginning with an introduction by the editor that provides a complete overview of the Marvel canon, this book offers the broadest and most in-depth collection on the subject to date.

Table of Contents

Introduction: Prelude to a ­Pop-Culture Phenomenon – Douglas Brode (1)
With Great Power Ballads, There Must Also Come—Great Responsibility! A ­Re-Assessment of the ­Spider-Man Legacy – Emily Lauer (15)
“I am…”: Tony Stark’s Evolving Masculinity from Comic to Endgame – Susan Aronstein and Tammy L. Mielke (24)
Armored Warriors Full of Arrows: From Obscure Crusader and Arabic Texts to Marvel’s Wolverine – Scott Manning (38)
Not a Giant, But a “Real” American Hero: Reinventing the American Military Man in G.I. Joe, a Real American Hero Comic Book (1982–1994) – Edward Salo (50)
Doctor Doom: Marvel’s Transmedia Supervillain – Mark Hibbett (59)
Beyond Good and Evil: DC’s Catwoman, Marvel’s Black Mamba, and the Tradition of the Dark, Dangerous Woman – Douglas Brode (69)
“You are ­mind-blowingly duplicitous”: Black Widow and the Male Gaze – Jaclyn Kliman (79)
Finally, a Muslim Teenage Female Superhero: The Intersectionality of Feminism and Islam in Ms. Marvel – Hafsa Alkhudairi (90)
The True Meaning of Fearless: Feminism in Fearless and the Marvel Universe – Christina M. Knopf (100)
Sexuality as the Devil’s Tool: Namor and His ­Never-Ending Love for Invisible Girl – Anke Marie Bock (109)
“We are Groot”: Subjectivity and Intersubjectivity in Guardians of the Galaxy – Jerold Abrams and Katherine Reed (119)
“I remember a shadow, living in the shade of your greatness”: Tracking Thor and Loki’s Codependency Across the Nine Realms and Beyond – J.S. Starkweather (130)
“Foul of form and barren of mind”: Disability in the Comics of Steve Gerber – Dennin Ellis and Melissa Guadrón (150)
A Kree by Any Other Name: The Nameless and the Problems of History, Forgetting, and the Pain of Memory – Jeffrey Mccambridge (160)
A Secret Empire Among Us: Or, “When Is There a Good Time to Discuss Fascism?” – Ora C. McWilliams and Joshua Richardson (168)
“They do things differently there”: Not Brand Echh, 1967–1969 – Cyrus R.K. Patell (179)
Children of a Lesser Atom: The Dearth of Difference in Marvel’s X-Men – Quincy Thomas (191)
Black Panther: From W.E.B. Du Bois to Wakanda – Karl E. Martin (210)
The Spreadable Media Model of Mass Communication: Tracing the Corporate Continuity of ­Disney-Marvel and the MCU – Garret L. Castleberry (219)

About the Contributors (239)
Index (243)


  
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