Jeffrey A Brown

Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes

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Produktbeschreibung

With examples taken from both the Golden Ages of DC and Marvel comics, as well as more recent superhero comics, films, television, and merchandising, this study provides a comprehensive look at the contradictory messages the superhero genre sends about love, sexuality, and gender.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 244
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 155mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781978825260
• ISBN-10: 1978825269
• Artikelnr.: 62190598

Autorenporträt

JEFFREY A. BROWN is a professor in the Department of Popular Culture in the School of Critical and Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His many books include The Modern Superhero in Film and Television and Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts: Marvel, Diversity, and the 21st Century Superhero (Rutgers University Press).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Signifying Love, Sex, and Gender 
1 The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes and Phallic Masculinity 
2 Women Dark and Dangerous: Super Femme Fatales and Female Sexuality 
3 Secrets of the Batcave: Masculinity and Homosocial Space 
4 Marriage, Domesticity, and Superheroes (for Better or Worse) 
5 It Starts with a Kiss: Straightening and Queering the Superhero 
6 Even an Android Has Feelings: Learning about Love and Robots 
7 Super Fluidity: Transing and Transcending Gendered Bodies 
8 KRAKK! WHACK! SMACK! Comic Book Violence and Sexual Assault 
9 Pleasure, Pain, Climaxes, and Little Deaths 
Conclusion: Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes in Real Life 
References 
Index