Brown Jeffrey A. Brown

Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts (eBook, PDF)

Marvel, Diversity and the 21st Century Superhero

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Produktbeschreibung

Marvel is one of the hottest media companies in the world right now, and its beloved superheroes are all over film, television and comic books. Yet rather than simply cashing in on the popularity of iconic white male characters like Peter Parker, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, Marvel has consciously diversified its lineup of superheroes, courting controversy in the process. Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel s recasting of certain legacy heroes, including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen. If the superhero comic is a quintessentially American creation, then how might the increasing diversification of Marvel s superhero lineup reveal a fundamental shift in our understanding of American identity? This timely study answers those questions and considers what Marvel s comics, TV series, and films might teach us about stereotyping, Orientalism, repatriation, whitewashing, and identification.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• Seitenzahl: 179
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Januar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781978809253
• Artikelnr.: 72449002

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