Superheroes and Masculinity

Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

Av Sean Parson, J.L. Schatz, J. L. Schatz

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Superheroes and Masculinity: Unmasking the Gender Performance of Heroism explores how heteropatriarchal representations of gender are portrayed within superhero comics, film, and television. The contributors examine how hegemonic masculinity has been continually perpetuated and reinforced within the superhero genre and unpack concise critiques of specific superhero representations, the industry, and the fan base at large. However, Superheroes and Masculinity also argues that possibilities of resistance and change are embedded within these problematic portrayals. To this end, several chapters explore alternative portrayals of queerness within superhero representations and read the hegemonic masculinity of various characters against the grain to produce queer possibilities. Ultimately, this collection argues that the quest to unmask how gender operates within superheroes is a crucial one.

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Utgivningsdatum2019-10-24
Mått159 x 233 x 18 mm
Vikt408 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor152
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing Plc
ISBN9781498591492

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Chapter One: Deconstructing the Hero-Sidekick Bromance: Foggy, Kato, and the Masculine Performance of FriendshipRyan Cheek and Anne BialowasChapter Two: If She Be Worthy: Performance of Female Masculinity and Toxic Geek Masculinity in Jason Aaron’s Thor: The Goddess of ThunderHailey J. AustinChapter Three: Witches and Witchbreed in Marvel 1602Kevin Cummings Chapter Four: The Joker’s Dionysian Philosophy of Gender and Sexuality in The Dark KnightJacob MurelChapter Five: There are Different Ways of Being Strong: Steven Universe and Developing a Caring Superhero MasculinityEdgar Sandoval, Julian Barr, and David J. RobertsChapter Six: There Must Always be a Thor: Marvel’s Thor the Goddess of Thunder and the Disruption of Heroic Masculinities Kiera M Gaswint and Jeff BrownChapter Seven: Poisoning Masculinity: Poison Ivy as a Counter-Narrative of Villainy and Trauma through Representations of Queer Love in DC’s Everyone Loves IvyTJ Buttgereit, Emily Mendelson, and JL SchatzChapter Eight: The New Teen Titans for Queer Boys: Emergent Masculinities and Sentimental Superhero Melodrama in the 1980sBrian Johnson

The superhero genre has undoubtedly dominated global popular culture in the past decade. Streaming shows, traditional television, film, graphic novels, and comic books have all featured the figure of the superhero, traditionally in all of his masculine glory. This collection, edited by Parson (Northern Arizona Univ.) and Schatz (Binghamton Univ.), shines when focusing on larger societal issues that problematize manhood, such as toxic masculinity, geek culture, the concept of bromance, and "homonationalism.". . The most successful essays include those on homosocial bonding between male superheroes and their sidekicks, by Anna Bialowas and Ryan Cheek; geek masculinity in Thor: The Goddess of Thunder, by Hailey J. Austin; and The New Teen Titans and its relationship to queer boys and adolescents, by Brian Johnson. . . the editors clearly demonstrate the multiple directions that such a topic can encompass. Summing Up: Recommended. With reservations. Lower-division undergraduates through faculty.