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Superheroes and Contemporary Cultures: Cross-Medial Explorations and Societal Perspectives

By Torsten Caeners (Editor), Danny Graydon (Editor)
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By Torsten Caeners (Editor), Danny Graydon (Editor)
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Presents a diverse range of perspectives on contemporary superhero scholarship. It links in-depth close readings of central texts of the superhero discourse from a variety of media (comics, TV, film) with larger societal and cultural discourses such as cross-medial, meta-textual and more general intersections and negotiations between the figure of the superhero and culture.


The book explores various functionalizations of superheroes such as Batman, Iron Man or Watchmen within society, analy...

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