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2016
Costume defines the superhero, disguising and distinguishing him or her from the civilian alter ego. The often garish garb expresses a hero’s otherness and empowers its wearers to seek a primal form of justice. This book provides the first interdisciplinary analysis of the superhero costume and investigates wide-ranging issues such as ...
Barbara Brownie, Danny Graydon
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Costume defines the superhero, disguising and distinguishing him or her from the civilian alter ego. The often garish garb expresses a hero’s otherness and empowers its wearers to seek a primal form of justice. This book provides the first interdisciplinary analysis of the superhero costume and investigates wide-ranging issues such as ...
Barbara Brownie, Danny Graydon
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IS THERE A COLOMBIAN NATIONAL SUPERHERO?:
This chapter explores the complexity of creating national superheroes in multi-ethnic countries. Tracing the history of the comic book medium in Colombia and the development of Colombian superheroes, the chapter examines how the identifying processes of race and ethnicity function alongside a difficulty in transducing the tropes of US superheroes to ...Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed +1 more
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2009
This comprehensive collection of essays written by a practicing psychiatrist shows that superheroes are more about superegos than about bodies and brawn, even though they contain subversive sexual subtexts that paved the path for major social shifts of the late 20th century.
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This comprehensive collection of essays written by a practicing psychiatrist shows that superheroes are more about superegos than about bodies and brawn, even though they contain subversive sexual subtexts that paved the path for major social shifts of the late 20th century.
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The superhero is a comic-book creation that has become a transmedia phenomenon, proliferating across film, television, games, books, and toy shelves. This chapter focuses on the last of these—and more specifically the super-hero action figure—to explore how important the toy industry has been to the evolution, survival and very definition of the super ...
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Superheroes and the mythic imagination: order, agency and politics
Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, 2021Neal Curtis
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