Jeffrey A Brown

Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts

Marvel, Diversity and the 21st Century Superhero

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Produktbeschreibung

Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has racially diversified its lineup and reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther, recast legacy heroes like Ms. Marvel, and developed new ones like the Latina Miss America.  

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 239mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 363g
• ISBN-13: 9781978809222
• ISBN-10: 1978809220
• Artikelnr.: 59084067

Autorenporträt

JEFFREY A. BROWN is a professor in the Department of Popular Culture and the School of Critical and Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His many books include Black Superheroes: Milestone Comics and Their Fans and Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Marvel and Modern America
1. Spider-Analogues: Unmarking and Unmasking White Male Superheroism
2. The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender and Legacy Heroes in Marvel
Comics
3. Superdad: Luke Cage and Heroic Fatherhood in the Civil War Comics
4. Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification and Appropriation
5. Iron Fist: Ethnicity, Appropriation and Repatriation
6. Totally Awesome Asian Heroes vs. Stereotypes
7. A New America: Marvelous Latinx Superheroes
8. Ms. Marvel: A Thoroughly Relatable Muslim Superheroine 
Afterword: "Because the World Still Needs Heroes"
Works Cited