The superhero multiverse : readapting comic book icons in twenty-first-century film and popular media /: readapting comic book icons in twenty-first-century film and popular media. (2021)
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- Book
- Title:
- The superhero multiverse : readapting comic book icons in twenty-first-century film and popular media /: readapting comic book icons in twenty-first-century film and popular media. (2021)
- Main Title:
- The superhero multiverse : readapting comic book icons in twenty-first-century film and popular media
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell.
- Editors:
- Piatti-Farnell, Lorna, 1980-
- Contents:
- 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”: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 … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Lanham : Lexington Books
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource
- Subjects:
- 741.5352
Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism
Superheroes
Heroes in mass media
Comic books, strips, etc -- Social aspects - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781793624604
- Related ISBNs:
- 9781793624598
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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