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Kent, Miriam. Women in Marvel Films. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781474448826
BibTeX citation key: Kent2021
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Keywords: Adaptation, Film adaptation, Gender, Marvel, Superhero, USA
Creators: Kent
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press (Edinburgh)		 Views: 57/57
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Abstract
The concept of identity in superhero narratives has become a burgeoning field in academic studies of this increasingly popular cinematic genre. Women in Marvel Films provides the first rigorous analysis of the portrayals of women, heroic and otherwise, in films based on Marvel comics from the 1980s to the present. It explores the relationships between this cultural phenomenon and wider issues of gender equality, considering the cultural moments in which Marvel films are made and incorporating complex histories of the comic book and Hollywood industries. The book also asks how feminist issues surface within superhero adaptations and how they are dealt with via Hollywood and comic book conventions. Women in Marvel Films shows how the Marvel superhero film taps into political complexities regarding gender and related identity issues, such as women’s roles in society and their relation to men, and provides a fascinating insight into gendered power dynamics in contemporary American popular culture.

Table of Contents

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introducing... The Mighty Women of Marvel!
Comics on Screen: What is at Stake in Representing Marvel Women? – The (Super)Power of Feminist Film Studies – We’re In This Together Now: Mediating Womanhood through Postfeminist Culture

1. ‘You have a knack for saving my life!’: Wives, Girlfriends and Women in Refrigerators in Marvel Films
Damsels in Distress and Women in Refrigerators across Media – Women in Refrigerators in Marvel Film Adaptations

2. Pepper Potts and Gwenn Stacy: Recuperating the Superhero Girlfriend
Iron (Wo)Man – The Amazing Gwen Stacy

3. With Great Power Comes Great Frustration? Configurations of Hero(ine)ism in Marvel Films
Superheroines and Postfeminist Media Culture – With Great Power Comes Great Frustration

4. Playing Superheroine: Feminine Subjectivity and (Postfeminist) Masquerade
‘I Want You to Be the Best Version of Yourself’: Postfeminist Masquerade and Subjectivity in Captain Marvel

5. Marvel Legacy: Girl Heroism and Intergenerationality and in Marvel Films
Interconnected Womanhood in Elektra – All-New, All-Different: The Legacy of Wolverine in Logan

6. Mad With Power: Female Villainy in Marvel Films
Wicked Witches and Poisonous Women – Disease, Toxicity and Poison in Marvel’s Evil Women – Make Asgard Great Again: Villainy and the Feminine Spectre of White Supremacy in Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

7. Mutants, Cyborgs and Femininity Unfixed? Addressing the Gendered Bodies of Mystique and Nebula
Fluid Gender and the Politics of the X-Men Films – The Strangest Superhero of All: Nebula’s Cyborg Subjectivity

8. Disrupting the Rainbow Bridge: Dysfunctional Heterosexuality and Reinforcing Gender Difference in Marvel Adaptations
Dysfunctional Heterosexuality in Marvel Films

9. Black Skin, Blue Skin: Race and Femininity in Marvel Films
The Politics of "Diversity" in Marvel Properties

10. The (Afro)Future of a Diverse Marvel: Gender, Race and Empire in Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther
Asgard as a People—Racial Ambiguity in Thor: Ragnarok’s Heroines – Wakanda Forever: Black Femininity and the (Afro)Future

Afterword: Some Concluding Remarks on Marvel Women… Thus Far!

Bibliography
Filmography
Index


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