Modern Superhero in Film and Television
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11 narratives
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Al Ghul
Amazing Spider Man
American exceptionalism
American Studies
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Batman Begins
Black Superheroes
Black Widow
Captain America
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CGI Technology
cultural hegemony
cultural studies
Dark Knight
Dark Knight Rises
DC Comic
diversity in entertainment
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film studies
gender representation
genre
Hegemonic Masculinity
Live Action Superhero
Mainstream Superhero
Marvel Studio
MCU
media studies
Nationalist Superhero
NBC Universal
Nick Fury
popular culture
post-9
Routledge Research
Super Men
Superhero Genre
superhero genre cultural critique
Superhero Movie
superheroes
Superman Returns
television
White Heterosexual Masculinity
White Heterosexual Men
Winter Soldier
Product details
- ISBN 9781138897786
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Nov 2016
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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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.
Jeffrey A. Brown is a professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, USA. He is the author of Black Superheroes: Milestone Comics and Their Fans, Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, and Beyond Bombshells: The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture.
