Brown The Modern Superhero in Film and Television

Popular Genre and American Cultural Values
Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-1-317-48450-9
Verlag: CRC Press
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 190 Seiten

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Comics Studies

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Brown, Jeffrey A.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction 2. Spectacle, Marketing and Political Economy 3. Gender: Super Men and Wonder Women 4. Americanism, Patriotism, Globalization 5. Post 9/11 Superheroics 6. Diversity and Discrimination 7. Spoofs, Parody and Camp 8. Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Jeffrey A. Brown is Professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, USA