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1 online resource (viii, 313 pages) : illustrations |
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Introducing... The mighty women of Marvel!. Comics on screen : what is at stake in representing Marvel women? ; The (super)power of feminist film studies ; We're in this together now : mediating womanhood through postfeminist culture -- 1: 'You have a knack for saving my life!' : wives, girlfriends and women in refrigerators in Marvel films. Damsels in distress and women in refrigerators across media ; Women in refrigerators in Marvel film adaptations - 2: Pepper Potts and Gwenn Stacy : recuperating the superhero girlfriend. Iron (wo)man ; The amazing Gwen Stacy -- 3: With great power comes great frustration? Configurations of hero(ine)ism in Marvel films. Superheroines and postfeminist media culture ; With great power comes great frustration -- 4: Playing superheroine : feminine subjectivity and (postfeminist) masquerade. 'I want you to be the best version of yourself' : postfeminist masquerade and subjectivity in Captain Marvel -- 5: Marvel legacy : girl heroism and intergenerationality and in Marvel films. Interconnected womanhood in Elektra ; All-new, all-different : the legacy of Wolverine in Logan -- 6: Mad with power : female villainy in Marvel films. Wicked witches and poisonous women ; Disease, toxicity and poison in Marvel's evil women ; Make Asgard great again : villainy and the feminine spectre of white supremacy in Thor: Ragnarok (2017) -- 7: Mutants, cyborgs and femininity unfixed? Addressing the gendered bodies of Mystique and Nebula. Fluid gender and the politics of the X-Men films ; The strangest superhero of all : Nebula's cyborg subjectivity -- 8: Disrupting the rainbow bridge : dysfunctional heterosexuality and reinforcing gender difference in Marvel adaptations. Dysfunctional heterosexuality in Marvel films -- 9: Black skin, blue skin : race and femininity in Marvel films. The politics of 'diversity' in Marvel properties - 10: The (Afro)future of a diverse Marvel : gender, race and empire in Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther. Asgard as a people-racial ambiguity in Thor: Ragnarok's heroines ; Wakanda forever : black femininity and the (Afro)future -- Afterword: Some concluding remarks on Marvel women... thus far! |
| Summary |
"The concept of identity in superhero narratives has become a burgeoning field in academic studies of this increasingly popular cinematic genre. Women in Marvel Films provides the first rigorous analysis of the portrayals of women, heroic and otherwise, in films based on Marvel comics from the 1980s to the present. It explores the relationships between this cultural phenomenon and wider issues of gender equality, considering the cultural moments in which Marvel films are made and incorporating complex histories of the comic book and Hollywood industries. The book also asks how feminist issues surface within superhero adaptations and how they are dealt with via Hollywood and comic book conventions. Women in Marvel Films shows how the Marvel superhero film taps into political complexities regarding gender and related identity issues, such as women's roles in society and their relation to men, and provides a fascinating insight into gendered power dynamics in contemporary American popular culture."-- Provided by publisher |
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Includes filmography, bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Miriam Kent has a PhD in Film Studies with a focus on Marvel superheroes from the University of East Anglia, where she has taught a wide range of Film, Media and Gender Studies courses. She has published on superhero media with an interest in gender, representation and adaptation. Her previous work has appeared in academic journals, including Feminist Media Studies |
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Description based on print version record |
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Marvel Entertainment Group.
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| SUBJECT |
Marvel Entertainment Group fast |
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Women in motion pictures.
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Superhero films -- History and criticism
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Superhero films
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Women in motion pictures
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Electronic books
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781474448840 |
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1474448844 |
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