THE MODERN SUPERHERO IN FILM AND TELEVISION by Jeffrey A. Brown ( 9781138897786 )

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Title:

THE MODERN SUPERHERO IN FILM AND TELEVISION
POPULAR GENRE AND AMERICAN CULTURE

By:

Jeffrey A. Brown

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Hardback

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1138897787

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Publisher:

TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD

Pub. date:

3 November, 2016

Series:

Routledge Advances in Comics Studies

Pages:

190

Synopsis:

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. Superheroes have long been agents of hegemony, fighting for abstract ideals of justice while overall perpetuating the American status quo. Yet at the same time, the book explores how the genre has also been utilized to question and critique these dominant cultural assumptions.

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27 black & white illustrations, 27 black & white halftones

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