Gender and the Superhero Narrative - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1496821106 ISBN 13: 9781496821102

Publisher: University Press of Mississippi, 2018

Synopsis

A look at the controversies and changes in the role of gender in comics. Gender and the Superhero Narrative launches ten essays that explore the point where social justice meets the Justice League. Ranging from comics such as Ms. Marvel, Batwoman: Elegy, and Bitch Planet to video games, Netflix, and cosplay, this volume builds a platform for important voices in comics research, engaging with controversy and community to provide deeper insight and thus inspire change.

About this title

Product Description:

A timely, exciting look at the controversies and changes in the role of gender in comics

About the Author:

Michael Goodrum, Oxford, United Kingdom, is senior lecturer in modern history at Canterbury Christ Church University. He is author of Superheroes and American Self Image: From War to Watergate and coeditor of ""Firefly"" Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series. Tara Prescott, Los Angeles, California, is lecturer and faculty in residence at the University of California, Los Angeles. She is author of Poetic Salvage: Reading Mina Loy; editor of Neil Gaiman in the 21st Century: Essays on the Novels, Children's Stories, Online Writings, Comics and Other Works; and coeditor of Feminism in the Worlds of Neil Gaiman: Essays on the Comics, Poetry and Prose. Philip Smith, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, is assistant professor in the School of English Studies at the University of the Bahamas. He is author of Reading Art Spiegelman and coeditor of ""Firefly"" Revisited: Essays on Joss Whedon's Classic Series.

About this edition

• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1496821106
• ISBN 13: 9781496821102
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 306
• Editor: Goodrum Michael, Prescott Tara, Smith Philip