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The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film

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The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film - Gray, Richard J, II (Editor), and Kaklamanidou, Betty (Editor)
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Superhero films are one of the most enduring genres of cinema, and their popularity is only increasing in the 21st century. These ten critical essays explore the phenomenon through the lenses of numerous academic disciplines, and cover topics such as the role of globalization in the formation of superhero narratives, the shifting nature of masculinity and femininity in the superhero world and the state of the genre today. Of particular interest is the way these narratives, however fantastic, abstract, futuristic or ...

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The 21st Century Superhero: Essays on Gender, Genre and Globalization in Film 2011, McFarland & Company, Jefferson

ISBN-13: 9780786463459

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