A world on fire: seeing beyond the discrimination paradigm in Marvel's Daredevil. Issue 2 (3rd March 2020)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Vernon, Matthew; Gustafson, Daniel
• Is Part Of: Journal of graphic novels & comics. Volume 11:Issue 2(2020)
• Page Start: 144
• Page End: 166
• Publication Date: 2020-03-03
• Subjects: Daredevil -- urban culture -- vulnerability; Graphic novels -- Periodicals; Comic books, strips, etc -- Periodicals; Popular culture -- Periodicals; Art, Modern -- 21st century -- Periodicals; Art, Modern; Comic books, strips, etc; Graphic novels; Popular culture; Comicroman; Comic; Periodicals; 741.5
• DOI: 10.1080/21504857.2018.1535444
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2150-4857

Abstract

ABSTRACT: This essay examines representations of vulnerability and urban biopolitics in Marvel's Daredevil comic book and its recent Netflix television adaptation. We argue that the franchise cannily plays on a New York City history of urban space and projects of urban renewal and offers a critical lens on how physical vulnerability may promote links between politically distanced communities invested in recasting the extent of legal, financial, and state powers. Daredevil bridges the popular and the speculative to make visible urban assemblages and intervene into ongoing debates about how a community can mobilise vulnerabilities into sites of resistance.