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Superheroes beyond / edited by Cormac McGarry, Liam Burke, Ian Gordon, Angela Ndalianis.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Superheroes.
- Superheroes--Social aspects.
- Superhero films--History and criticism.
- Superhero films.
- Superhero television programs--History and criticism.
- Superhero television programs.
- Comic strip characters in motion pictures.
- Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Comic books, strips, etc--Social aspects.
- Comic book fans.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xiv, 270 pages) : illustrations (chiefly color)
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2024]
- Contents:
- Foreword: Planetary superheroes as collective daydream / Frederick Luis Aldama
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction / Cormac McGarry
- Introduction: beyond men of steel / Angela Ndalianis
- Chapter 1: All new, all different, or no normal? Marvel Comics and superhero diversity / Naja Later
- Chapter 2: The heart of a hero: disability and humanity in the origin stories of Marvel Studios' superheroes / Alexandra Ostrowski Schilling
- Chapter 3: Monstrosity, mutation, and the world without us / Octavia Cade
- Chapter 4: Midnight's children and the "Fortress of Solitude" as superhero origin stories / Julian Novitz
- Chapter 5: African American viewers watching "Black Panther: the power of representation" / Sheena C. Howard
- Introduction: Beyond comic books / Ian Gordon
- Chapter 6: Animating Sub-Mariner and Aquaman: generational taste and the moral panic of the 1968 television season / Djoymi Baker
- Chapter 7: The "toy biz" of superhero action figures / Jason Bainbridge
- Chapter 8: From comic books to courtroom: unmasking the intellectual property behind the superhero / Mitchell Adams
- Chapter 9: Capes, tights, and motherships: superheroes and new transmedia star systems / Cormac McGarry
- Chapter 10: Super fans or toxic madmen?: fantasy, reality, and marginalized identities in subversive "DIY superhero" indie films / Jack Teiwes
- Introduction: beyond the United States
- Chapter 11: We need another hero: the incompatibility of superheroes and Australia / Liam Burke
- Chapter 12: Without seeing the dawn: monstrous (super) heroes and Philippine myths in Mervin Malonzo's "Tabi Po" / Maria Lorena M. Santos
- Chapter 13: Is there a Colombian national superhero?: how Columbian superheroes help define ethnicity and race in a multicultural society / Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed and Hernan David Espinosa-Medina
- Chapter 14: Where does "Black Panther's" music come from? Authorship, "The Other," and the musical representation of Africa in Hollywood / Dan Golding
- Chapter 15: The Phantom in Aborginal Australia: educational comics, national identity, and indigeneity / Aaron Humphrey
- About the contributors
- Index.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 22, 2024).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Superheroes beyond
- ISBN:
- 9781496850140
- 1496850149
- 9781496850119
- 1496850114
- 9781496850126
- 1496850122
- Publisher Number:
- 40032201289
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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