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Pages: 345
Authors: Wendy Haslem
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-11-20 - Publisher: Taylor & Francis

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Throughout the history of the genre, the superhero has been characterised primarily by physical transformation and physical difference. Superhero Bodies: Identi
Uncanny Bodies
Language: en
Pages: 255
Authors: Scott T. Smith
Categories: Comics & Graphic Novels
Type: BOOK - Published: 2019-12-10 - Publisher: Penn State Press

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Superhero comics reckon with issues of corporeal control. And while they commonly deal in characters of exceptional or superhuman ability, they have also shown
The Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics
Language: en
Pages: 264
Authors: Scott Jeffery
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-10-11 - Publisher: Springer

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This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiences embrace the co
The Superhero Costume
Language: en
Pages: 193
Authors: Barbara Brownie
Categories: Design
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015-11-19 - Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

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Costume defines the superhero, disguising and distinguishing him or her from the civilian alter ego. The often garish garb expresses a hero's otherness and empo
The Modern Superhero in Film and Television
Language: en
Pages: 182
Authors: Jeffrey A. Brown
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2016-11-10 - Publisher: Routledge

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Hollywood’s live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film an