Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies
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- ISBN 9781032433547
- Weight: 1180g
- Dimensions: 174 x 246mm
- Publication Date: 29 Oct 2025
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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This Companion explores the evolution, representation, and meaning of superheroes within the broader popular media and culture landscape, as connected to both contemporary and historical frameworks. The volume proposes itself as a comprehensive resource in the interdisciplinary field of "Superhero Studies", acknowledging it as its own area of scholarly and cultural interest. Superhero Studies brings together perspectives from a number of intersecting disciplines such as comics studies, film studies, television studies, fandom studies, game studies, and beyond. In answer to the evolutionary portrayals of superheroes in our cultures, histories, and narratives, The Routledge Companion of Superhero Studies addresses the development, transformation, and meaning of these iconic figures, by taking a transnational, multimedia, and interdisciplinary approach to assessing their importance in our evolving representational contexts.
Lorna Piatti-Farnell (PhD) is the Academic Dean at SAE Creative Media Institute in Auckland, New Zealand. She is the Founder and Director of the Australasian Horror Studies Network and sole editor of the "Routledge Advances in Popular Culture Studies" book series.
Carl Wilson is a freelance scholar and author based in the UK.
