Heroism as a global phenomenon in contemporary culture / edited by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt and Nicole Falkenhayner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Korte, Barbara, 1957- editor.

Wendt, Simon, editor.

Falkenhayner, Nicole, 1976- editor.

Series:

Routledge studies in cultural history

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heroes in mass media.

Courage in mass media.

Heroes in popular culture.

Courage in popular culture.

Heroes.

Heroes in motion pictures.

Physical Description:

vi, 249 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.

Summary:

"Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this research void and brings together case studies by scholars from different parts of the world and diverse fields. They explore how transnational and transcultural processes of translation and adaptation shape notions of the heroic in non-Western and Western cultures alike. The book provides fresh perspectives on heroism studies and offers a new angle for global and postcolonial studies"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction : studying heroism from a global perspective / Barbara Korte and Simon Wendt

"Like a cinema when the last of the audience has gone and only the staff remain" : Biggles and (post-)imperial heroism / Michael Goodrum

Y'a bon? : popularizing the tirailleurs as heroes of (anti-)colonialism / Konstanze N'Guessan and Mareike Späth

Princess of a different kingdom : cultural imperialism, female heroism, and the global performance of Walt Disney's Mulan and Moana / Sotirios Mouzakis

One hero fits all? : cultural translations in Doctor Strange (2016) as "global hero" movie / Nicole Falkenhayner and Maria-Xenia Hardt

Zashchitniki (Guardians) : a failed Russian-Soviet answer to Superman and Batman / Dietmar Neutatz

"This beast in the shape of a man" : right-wing populism, white masculinity, and the transnational heroization of Donald Trump / Michael Butter

Axe and helmet : the widening range of New York firefighters as (super-)heroes / Wolfgang Hochbruck

Unlikely tragic (anti-)heroes : gangsters translated into Hindi films / Sugata Nandi

Heroism and the pleasure and pain of mistranslation : the case of the act of killing / Ariel Heryanto

Shaolin martial arts heroes in industrial Hong Kong : between colonialism, postcolonialism and globalism / Ricardo K. S. Mak

Interhuman. interspecies. global : heroism in Wes Anderson's Isle of dogs (2018) / Ulrike Zimmermann

Global heroism as a discursive tradition : a critical response / Ken Chitwood.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Heroism as a global phenomenon in contemporary culture.

ISBN:

9780367206659

036720665X

OCLC:

1078771902