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Mixed-Race Superheroes

Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins,Eric L. Berlatsky
Mixed Race Superheroes Book PDF

Author : Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins,Eric L. Berlatsky
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781978814615

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Mixed-Race Superheroes by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins,Eric L. Berlatsky Pdf

American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the Wasp’s tragic mulatta villain Ghost to the cinematic depiction of Aquaman as a heroic “half-breed.” The essays in this collection contend with the multitude of ways that racial mixedness has been presented in superhero comics, films, television, and literature. They explore how superhero media positions mixed-race characters within a genre that has historically privileged racial purity and propagated images of white supremacy. The book considers such iconic heroes as Superman, Spider-Man, and The Hulk, alongside such lesser-studied characters as Valkyrie, Dr. Fate, and Steven Universe. Examining both literal and symbolic representations of racial mixing, this study interrogates how we might challenge and rewrite stereotypical narratives about mixed-race identity, both in superhero media and beyond.

Mixed-Race Superman

Will Harris
Mixed Race Superman Book PDF

Author : Will Harris
Publisher : Melville House
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781612197906

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Mixed-Race Superman by Will Harris Pdf

An edgy and insightful look at Barack Obama, Keanu Reeves, and the mixed-race experience in our divided world. At once personally revealing and politically astute, author Will Harris reflects on the lives of two very different supermen: Barack Obama and Keanu Reeves. In an era where a man endorsed by the Ku Klux Klan can sit in the White House, Harris argues that the mixed-race of both Obama and Reeves gave them a cultural shapelessness that was a form of resistance. Reeves, as Neo in The Matrix, portrayed the chosen one on the silver screen, while Obama, for a brief moment, was a real-life superhero on the world stage. Drawing on his own personal experience and examining the way that these two men have been embedded in our collective consciousness, Harris asks what they can teach us about race and heroism.

The Superhero Book

Gina Misiroglu
The Superhero Book Book PDF

Author : Gina Misiroglu
Publisher : Visible Ink Press
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781578593958

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The Superhero Book by Gina Misiroglu Pdf

Appealing to the casual comic book reader as well as the hardcore graphic novel fan, this ultimate AtoZ compendium describes everyone’s favorite participants in the eternal battle between good and evil. With nearly 200 entries examining more than 1,000 heroes, icons and their place in popular culture, it is the first comprehensive profile of superheroes across all media, following their path from comic book stardom to radio, television, movies, and novels. The best-loved and most historically significant superheroes—mainstream and counterculture, famous and forgotten, best and worst—are presented with numerous full-color illustrations, including dozens of classic comic covers. Each significant era of the superhero is explored—from the Golden Age of the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s through the Modern Age—providing a unique perspective of the role of the hero over the course of the 20th century and beyond. This latest edition has been revised to reflect updates on existing characters, coverage of new characters, and recent films and media trends in the last several years.

Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics

Frederick Luis Aldama
Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics Book PDF

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : University of Arizona Press
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2017-10-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780816537082

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Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics offers the first thorough exploration of Latino/a superheroes in mainstream comic books, TV shows, and movies--Provided by publisher.

Superheroes Beyond

Cormac McGarry,Liam Burke,Ian Gordon,Angela Ndalianis
Superheroes Beyond Book PDF

Author : Cormac McGarry,Liam Burke,Ian Gordon,Angela Ndalianis
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2024-03-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496850119

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Superheroes Beyond by Cormac McGarry,Liam Burke,Ian Gordon,Angela Ndalianis Pdf

Contributions by Mitchell Adams, Frederick Luis Aldama, Jason Bainbridge, Djoymi Baker, Liam Burke, Octavia Cade, Hernan David Espinosa-Medina, Dan Golding, Ian Gordon, Sheena C. Howard, Aaron Humphrey, Naja Later, Cormac McGarry, Angela Ndalianis, Julian Novitz, Alexandra Ostrowski Schilling, Maria Lorena M. Santos, Jack Teiwes, and Enrique Uribe-Jongbloed In recent years, superheroes on the page and screen have garnered increasing research and wider interest. Nonetheless, many works fall back on familiar examples before arriving at predictable conclusions. Superheroes Beyond moves superhero research beyond expected models. In this innovative collection, contributors unmask international crimefighters, track superheroes outside of the comic book page, and explore heroes whose secret identities are not cisgender men. Superheroes Beyond responds to the growing interest in understanding the unique appeal of superheroes by reveling in the diversity of this heroic type. Superheroes Beyond explores the complexity and cultural reach of the superhero in three sections. The first, “Beyond Men of Steel,” examines how the archetype has moved beyond simply recapitulating the “man of steel” figure to include broader representations of race, gender, sexuality, and ableness. The second section, “Beyond Comic Books,” discusses how the superhero has become a transmedia phenomenon, moving from comic books to toys to cinema screens and beyond. The final section, “Beyond the United States,” highlights the vibrant but often overlooked history of global superhero figures. Together, the essays in this collection form important starting points for taking stock of the superhero’s far-reaching appeal, contributing the critical conversations required to bring scholarship into the present moment and beyond.

Aquaman and the War Against Oceans

Ryan Poll
Aquaman and the War Against Oceans Book PDF

Author : Ryan Poll
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496233707

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Aquaman and the War Against Oceans by Ryan Poll Pdf

The reimagining of Aquaman in The New 52 transformed the character from a joke to an important figure of ecological justice. In Aquaman and the War against Oceans, Ryan Poll argues that in this twenty-first-century iteration, Aquaman becomes an accessible figure for charting environmental violences endemic to global capitalism and for developing a progressive and popular ecological imagination. Poll contends that The New 52 Aquaman should be read as an allegory that responds to the crises of the Anthropocene, in which the oceans have become sites of warfare and mass death. The Aquaman series, which works to bridge the terrestrial and watery worlds, can be understood as a form of comics activism by its visualizing and verbalizing how the oceans are beyond the projects of the “human” and “humanism” and, simultaneously, are all-too-human geographies that are inextricable from the violent structures of capitalism, white supremacy, and patriarchy. The New 52 Aquaman, Poll demonstrates, proves an important form of ocean literacy in particular and ecological literacy more generally.

Superhero Culture Wars

Monica Flegel,Judith Leggatt
Superhero Culture Wars Book PDF

Author : Monica Flegel,Judith Leggatt
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2021-01-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350148666

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Superhero Culture Wars by Monica Flegel,Judith Leggatt Pdf

The reactionary Comicsgate campaign against alleged “forced” diversity in superhero comics revealed the extent to which comics have become a key battleground in America's Culture Wars. In the first in-depth scholarly study of Marvel Comics' most recent engagement with progressive politics, Superhero Culture Wars explores how the drive towards greater diversity among its characters and creators has interacted with the company's commercial marketing and its traditional fan base. Along the way the book covers such topics as: · Major characters such as Miles Morales's Spider-man, Kamala Khan's Ms. Marvel, Jane Foster's Thor, Sam Wilson's Captain America and the Secret Empire series' turncoat Captain America · Creators such as G. Willow Wilson, Jason Aaron, Nick Spencer and Michael Bendis · Marketing, the Marvel Universe, and online fan culture Superhero Culture Wars demonstrates how the marketing of Marvel comics as politically progressive has both indelibly shaped its in-world universe and characters, and led to conflicts between its corporate interests, its creators, and it audience.

Superheroes in the Streets

Kimberly Wedeven Segall
Superheroes in the Streets Book PDF

Author : Kimberly Wedeven Segall
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2024-04-15
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781496850393

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Superheroes in the Streets by Kimberly Wedeven Segall Pdf

The icon of the female protester and her alter-ego, the female superhero, fills screens in the news, in theaters, and in digital spaces. The female protester who is Muslim, though, has been subject to a legacy of discrimination. Superheroes in the Streets: Muslim Women Activists and Protest in the Digital Age follows the stories of both famous and grassroots Muslim female protestors, bringing careful attention to protest modes and online national icons. US Muslim women have long navigated public and digital spaces aware of the complex and nuanced histories that trail them. Given the pervasive influence of mainstream feminism, Muslim women activists are often made out to be damsels in distress. Even when mass media turns its attention to the activism of Muslim women, persistence of these false narratives demeans their culture and hypersexualizes their bodies. Following the stories of US Muslim women activists, author Kimberly Wedeven Segall shows how they have been reinventing the streets and remaking racialized codifications. Segall highlights their creativity in crafting protest media of posters, rap rally songs, and digital images of superheroes, carving public spaces into inclusive and digital territories. Each chapter teases apart the complexities of public banners and digital activism.

Writing Superheroes

Anne Haas Dyson
Writing Superheroes Book PDF

Author : Anne Haas Dyson
Publisher : Teachers College Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2024-04-28
Category : Education
ISBN : 0807770167

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Writing Superheroes by Anne Haas Dyson Pdf

Based on an ethnographic study in an urban classroom of 7- to 9-year olds, Writing Superheroes examines how young school children use popular culture, especially superhero stories, in the unofficial peer social world and in the official school literacy curriculum. In one sense, the book is about children "writing superheroes"-about children appropriating superhero stories in their fiction writing and dramatic play on the playground and in the classroom. These stories offer children identities as powerful people who do battle against evil and win. The stories, however, also reveal limiting ideological assumptions about relations between people-boys and girls, adults and children, people of varied heritages, physical demeanors, and social classes. The book, then, is also about children as "writing superheroes." With the assistance of their teacher, the observed children became superheroes of another sort, able to take on powerful cultural storylines. In this book, Anne Dyson examines how the children's interest in and conflicts about commercial culture give rise to both literacy and social learning, including learning how to participate in a community of differences.

Super Black

Adilifu Nama
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Author : Adilifu Nama
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2011-10-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780292742529

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Super Black by Adilifu Nama Pdf

“A welcome overview of black superheroes and Afrocentric treatments of black-white relations in US superhero comics since the 1960s.” –ImageTexT Journal Winner, American Book Award, Before Columbus Foundation Super Black places the appearance of black superheroes alongside broad and sweeping cultural trends in American politics and pop culture, which reveals how black superheroes are not disposable pop products, but rather a fascinating racial phenomenon through which futuristic expressions and fantastic visions of black racial identity and symbolic political meaning are presented. Adilifu Nama sees the value—and finds new avenues for exploring racial identity—in black superheroes who are often dismissed as sidekicks, imitators of established white heroes, or are accused of having no role outside of blaxploitation film contexts. Nama examines seminal black comic book superheroes such as Black Panther, Black Lightning, Storm, Luke Cage, Blade, the Falcon, Nubia, and others, some of whom also appear on the small and large screens, as well as how the imaginary black superhero has come to life in the image of President Barack Obama. Super Black explores how black superheroes are a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society that express a myriad of racial assumptions, political perspectives, and fantastic (re)imaginings of black identity. The book also demonstrates how these figures overtly represent or implicitly signify social discourse and accepted wisdom concerning notions of racial reciprocity, equality, forgiveness, and ultimately, racial justice. “A refreshingly nuanced approach . . . Nama complicates the black superhero by also seeing the ways that they put issues of post-colonialism, race, poverty, and identity struggles front and center.” –Rain Taxi

The Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice

Joseph Zornado,Sara Reilly
The Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice Book PDF

Author : Joseph Zornado,Sara Reilly
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-06
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9783030854584

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The Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice by Joseph Zornado,Sara Reilly Pdf

This book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social practice. The study’s critical context brings together psychoanalysis and restorative and reflective nostalgia as a way of understanding the ideological function of superhero fantasy. It explores the origins of cinematic superhero fantasy from antecedents in myth and religion, to twentieth-century comic book, to the cinematic breakthrough with Superman (1978). The authors then focus on Spider-Man as reflective response to Superman’s restorative nostalgia, and read MCU’s overarching narrative from Iron Man to End Game in terms of the concurrent social, political, and environmental conditions as a world in crisis. Zornado and Reilly take up Wonder Woman and Black Panther as self-conscious attempts to reflect on gender and race in restorative superhero fantasy, and explore Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy as a meditation on the need for authoritarian fascism. The book concludes with Logan, Wonder Woman 1984, and Amazon Prime’s The Boys as distinctly reflective fantasy narratives critical of the superhero fantasy phenomenon.

Men of Steel, Women of Wonder

Alejo Benedetti
Men of Steel Women of Wonder Book PDF

Author : Alejo Benedetti
Publisher : University of Arkansas Press
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781682260975

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Men of Steel, Women of Wonder by Alejo Benedetti Pdf

Saturated in patriotic colors, Superman and Wonder Woman are about as American as baseball and apple pie. Superman, created in 1938, materialized as the brawny answer to the Great Depression, and when Wonder Woman arrived three years later, she supported her adopted country by fighting alongside Allied troops in World War II. As the proverbial mother and father of the superhero genre, these icons appeared to a society in crisis as unwavering beacons of national morality, a quality that lent them success on the battlefield—and on the newsstand. As new crises arise our comic-book champions continue to be called into action. They adapt and evolve but remain the same potent, if flawed, symbols of the American way. The artists in Men of Steel, Women of Wonder, an exhibition organized by Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, wrestle with Wonder Woman’s standing as a feminist icon, position Superman as a Soviet-era weapon, and question the immigration status of both characters. Featuring more than seventy artworks that range from loving endorsements to brutal critiques of American culture, this exhibition catalog reveals the enduring presence of these characters and the diverse ways artists employ them.

Ms. Marvel's America

Jessica Baldanzi,Hussein Rashid
Ms Marvel s America Book PDF

Author : Jessica Baldanzi,Hussein Rashid
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2020-02-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496827050

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Ms. Marvel's America by Jessica Baldanzi,Hussein Rashid Pdf

Contributions by José Alaniz, Jessica Baldanzi, Eric Berlatsky, Peter E. Carlson, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Antero Garcia, Aaron Kashtan, Winona Landis, A. David Lewis, Martin Lund, Shabana Mir, Kristin M. Peterson, Nicholaus Pumphrey, Hussein Rashid, and J. Richard Stevens Mainstream superheroes are becoming more and more diverse, with new identities for Spider-Man, Captain America, Thor, and Iron Man. Though the Marvel-verse is becoming much more racially, ethnically, and gender diverse, many of these comics remain shy about religion. The new Ms. Marvel, Kamala Khan, is a notable exception, not only because she is written and conceived by two women, Sana Amanat and G. Willow Wilson, but also because both of these women bring their own experiences as Muslim Americans to the character. This distinct collection brings together scholars from a range of disciplines including literature, cultural studies, religious studies, pedagogy, and communications to engage with a single character, exploring Khan’s significance for a broad readership. While acknowledged as the first Muslim superhero to headline her own series, her character appears well developed and multifaceted in many other ways. She is the first character to take over an established superhero persona, Ms. Marvel, without a reboot of the series or death of the original character. The teenager is also a second-generation immigrant, born to parents who arrived in New Jersey from Pakistan. With essays from and about diverse voices on an array of topics from fashion to immigration history to fandom, this volume includes an exclusive interview with Ms. Marvel author and cocreator G. Willow Wilson by gender studies scholar Shabana Mir.

Avengers

Anonim
Avengers Book PDF

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Marvel
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2015-11-10
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0785197699

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Avengers by Anonim Pdf

From the pages of Jonathan Hickman's AVENGERS, witness the Ultron Singularity of the 25th Century! Machines have inherited the Earth, with Ultron as their All-Father. Mankind's only hope will be a time-torn team in the tradition of AVENGERS FOREVER! An early Hulk, Jim Rhodes as Iron Man and a Hela-cursed battle-armor Thor are plucked from the past. The unlikely duo of Vision and Black Widow are drawn from our present. And from the near and not-so-near future, the new Thor and an even newer Captain America, with her own heroic legacy to live up to! Who cries "Assemble" to this unique group? The one and only Dr. Doom! Caught between Ultron and Doom, can the Avengers find a way to save forever? COLLECTING: Avengers: Ultron Forever 1, New Avengers: Ultron Forever 1, Uncanny Avengers: Ultron Forever 1, Avengers (1963) #54-55

Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes

Josef Benson,Doug Singsen
Bandits Misfits and Superheroes Book PDF

Author : Josef Benson,Doug Singsen
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496838377

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Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes by Josef Benson,Doug Singsen Pdf

American comics from the start have reflected the white supremacist culture out of which they arose. Superheroes and comic books in general are products of whiteness, and both signal and hide its presence. Even when comics creators and publishers sought to advance an antiracist agenda, their attempts were often undermined by a lack of awareness of their own whiteness and the ideological baggage that goes along with it. Even the most celebrated figures of the industry, such as Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster, Jack Jackson, William Gaines, Stan Lee, Robert Crumb, Will Eisner, and Frank Miller, have not been able to distance themselves from the problematic racism embedded in their narratives despite their intentions or explanations. Bandits, Misfits, and Superheroes: Whiteness and Its Borderlands in American Comics and Graphic Novels provides a sober assessment of these creators and their role in perpetuating racism throughout the history of comics. Josef Benson and Doug Singsen identify how whiteness has been defined, transformed, and occasionally undermined over the course of eighty years in comics and in many genres, including westerns, horror, crime, funny animal, underground comix, autobiography, literary fiction, and historical fiction. This exciting and groundbreaking book assesses industry giants, highlights some of the most important episodes in American comic book history, and demonstrates how they relate to one another and form a larger pattern, in unexpected and surprising ways.