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Brown, Jeffrey A. The Modern Superhero in Film and Television: Popular Genre and American Culture. Routledge Advances in Comics Studies. London, New York: Routledge, 2016. 
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Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781138897786
BibTeX citation key: Brown2016
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Keywords: Adaptation, Film adaptation, Superhero, USA
Creators: Brown
Publisher: Routledge (London, New York)		 Views: 4/1005
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Abstract
Hollywood’s live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense popularity reveals deep cultural concerns about politics, gender, ethnicity, patriotism and consumerism after the events of 9/11. Superheroes have long been agents of hegemony, fighting for abstract ideals of justice while overall perpetuating the American status quo. Yet at the same time, the book explores how the genre has also been utilized to question and critique these dominant cultural assumptions.

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Live-Action Superhero Genre (1)

1. Hollywood Superheroes: Commercial Economy, Spectacle, and the Universe (16)
2. Super Men and Wonder Women: Gender Ideals and Live-Action Superheroes (37)
3. Superheroes Rewriting 9/11 and Remasculinizing America (63)
4. America, Nostalgia, and Exceptionalism (90)
5. Diversity and Marginalization (111)
7. Spoofs, Parody, and Camp (132)

Conclusion: Superhero Fatigue? (150)

References (163)
Index (175)


  
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