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Routledge Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation

Name: Routledge Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation
Brand: Routledge
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Explore the deep connection between the superhero and physical transformation in this academic study from Routledge Advances in Comics Studies. This book examines how the superhero body changes across various media, including comics, film, television, literature, and graphic novels. Readers will investigate how the hero's body provides new ways to imagine identity and how it represents or subverts cultural ideals. The text looks at how ideologies of race, gender, and disability are signified or destabilized through physicality. This work is a deep look into the materiality of the genre and how physical difference defines the superhero throughout history.

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Examines the superhero body across multiple media forms including film, television, and comics.

Analyzes how physical transformation and difference define the superhero genre.

Investigates the representation of race, gender, and disability through superhero physicality.

Explores how the hero's body can subvert or represent various cultural ideals.

Part of the Routledge Advances in Comics Studies series for academic depth.

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Brand: Routledge
Format: hardcover
ASIN: 1138389897
Category: Books > Subjects > Arts & Photography > Film
Domain: Amazon UK
Release Date: 20 November 2018
Listed Since: 06 July 2018

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