Supervillains
Regular price
€28.50
A01=Nao Tomabechi
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
allegory
american studies
Author_Nao Tomabechi
automatic-update
Category1=Fiction
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=DSK
Category=FX
Category=JBCC1
Category=JBCT
Category=JFCA
Category=JFD
Category=XA
Catwoman
comic studies
comics
COP=United States
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_fiction
eq_graphic-novels-manga
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
eq_society-politics
gender
Harley Quinn
heroes
Language_English
Lex Luthor
Loki
media
PA=Not yet available
popular culture
Price_€20 to €50
PS=Forthcoming
social commentary
softlaunch
superheros
supervillains
symbolism
the Joker
Venom
villains
Product details
- ISBN 9781978839373
- Weight: 45g
- Dimensions: 156 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 14 Jan 2025
- Publisher: Rutgers University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
Alongside superheroes, supervillains, too, have become one of today’s most popular and globally recognizable figures. However, it is not merely their popularity that marks their significance. Supervillains are also central to superhero storytelling to the extent that the superhero genre cannot survive without supervillains.
Bringing together different approaches and critical perspectives across disciplines, author Nao Tomabechi troubles overly hero-centered works in comics studies to reconsider the modern American myths of the superheroes. Considering the likes of Lex Luthor, the Joker, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Loki, Venom, and more, Supervillians explores themes such as gender and sexuality, disability, and many forms of Otherness in relation to the notion of evil as it appears in the superhero genre. The book investigates how supervillains uphold and, at times, trouble dominant ideals expressed by the heroism of our superheroes.
Bringing together different approaches and critical perspectives across disciplines, author Nao Tomabechi troubles overly hero-centered works in comics studies to reconsider the modern American myths of the superheroes. Considering the likes of Lex Luthor, the Joker, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Loki, Venom, and more, Supervillians explores themes such as gender and sexuality, disability, and many forms of Otherness in relation to the notion of evil as it appears in the superhero genre. The book investigates how supervillains uphold and, at times, trouble dominant ideals expressed by the heroism of our superheroes.
NAO TOMABECHI teaches English and American culture at Shujitsu University in Japan.
