The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adaptation, re-imagining, and re-making.
The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adaptation, re-imagining, and re-making.
Lorna Piatti-Farnell is professor of popular culture at Auckland University of Technology, where she is also director of the Popular Culture Research Centre.
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Acknowledgments Introduction Lorna Piatti-Farnell Part I: Across Platforms and Formats 1.¬From Cinematic to Podcast Universe: Wolverine: The Long Night and the Multiplication of the Marvel Multiverse Cory Barker 2.The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan 3.Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video Games Carl Wilson 4."I feel like I'm getting my Wonder Woman back,": Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, Fans, and Authenticities in the DC Extended Universe Joan Ormrod 5.Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero Cinema James C. Taylor Part II: Transformative Meanings 6.Reanimating Witchcraft: Creating A Feminist Embodied Experience in Marvel's Scarlet Witch Forrest Johnson 7.Resurrecting the Hero: Disrupted Histories, Ghostly Returns, and Gothic Transformations in MCU's Captain America Lorna Piatti-Farnell 8.Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica Jones Matthew Thompson 9.Super-heroine Objectification: The Sexualization of Black Widow Across Comic and Film Adaptations Angelique Nairn 10.An 'Extra-Ordinary' Adaptation: Exploring Time and Trauma in The Umbrella Academy Carmel Cedro and Blair Speakman 11.Battle of the Black Superheroes: Or, Why Blade Will Never Live in Wakanda Simon Bacon Part III: Transnational Dialogues and Evolving Political Contexts 12.From "Bat-Manga" to "Attack on Avengers": Transnational Superhero Adaptations Between Japan and America Anne Lee 13.Kamen Rider, Masked and Unmasked: Tales of Transcultural Transformation Sophia Staite 14.Spider-Man, The Panopticon, and The Normalization of Mass Surveillance Demi Schänzel 15.Adapting Judge Dredd: Civic Guardian or Hyperviolent Cop? Justin Matthews 16.All the President's Supermen: Political Appropriations of Superhero Rhetoric Michael Soares Index About the Contributors
Acknowledgments Introduction Lorna Piatti-Farnell Part I: Across Platforms and Formats 1.¬From Cinematic to Podcast Universe: Wolverine: The Long Night and the Multiplication of the Marvel Multiverse Cory Barker 2.The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan 3.Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video Games Carl Wilson 4."I feel like I'm getting my Wonder Woman back,": Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, Fans, and Authenticities in the DC Extended Universe Joan Ormrod 5.Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero Cinema James C. Taylor Part II: Transformative Meanings 6.Reanimating Witchcraft: Creating A Feminist Embodied Experience in Marvel's Scarlet Witch Forrest Johnson 7.Resurrecting the Hero: Disrupted Histories, Ghostly Returns, and Gothic Transformations in MCU's Captain America Lorna Piatti-Farnell 8.Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica Jones Matthew Thompson 9.Super-heroine Objectification: The Sexualization of Black Widow Across Comic and Film Adaptations Angelique Nairn 10.An 'Extra-Ordinary' Adaptation: Exploring Time and Trauma in The Umbrella Academy Carmel Cedro and Blair Speakman 11.Battle of the Black Superheroes: Or, Why Blade Will Never Live in Wakanda Simon Bacon Part III: Transnational Dialogues and Evolving Political Contexts 12.From "Bat-Manga" to "Attack on Avengers": Transnational Superhero Adaptations Between Japan and America Anne Lee 13.Kamen Rider, Masked and Unmasked: Tales of Transcultural Transformation Sophia Staite 14.Spider-Man, The Panopticon, and The Normalization of Mass Surveillance Demi Schänzel 15.Adapting Judge Dredd: Civic Guardian or Hyperviolent Cop? Justin Matthews 16.All the President's Supermen: Political Appropriations of Superhero Rhetoric Michael Soares Index About the Contributors
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