Jeffrey A. Brown

Gebundenes Buch

The Modern Superhero in Film and Television

Popular Genre and American Culture

Beschreibung

Hollywood's live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense popularity reveals deep cultural concerns about politics, gender, ethnicity, patriotism and consumerism after the events of 9/11.

Autor

Jeffrey A. Brown is a professor in the Department of Popular Culture at Bowling Green State University, USA. He is the author of Black Superheroes: Milestone Comics and Their Fans, Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture, and Beyond Bombshells: The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 190
• Erscheinungstermin: 10. November 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 434g
• ISBN-13: 9781138897786
• ISBN-10: 1138897787
• Artikelnr.: 43678243