Research Catalog

Title

Women in Marvel films / Miriam Kent.

Author

Kent, Miriam

Publication

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

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Details

Description

viii, 313 pages : illustrations (black and white); 25 cm

Summary

"Women in Marvel Films provides the first rigorous analysis of the portrayals of women, heroic and otherwise, in films based on Marvel comics from the 1980s to the present. It explores the relationships between this cultural phenomenon and wider issues of gender equality, considering the cultural moments in which Marvel films are made and incorporating complex histories of the comic book and Hollywood industries. The book also asks how feminist issues surface within superhero adaptations and how they are dealt with via Hollywood and comic book conventions. [This book] shows how the Marvel superhero film taps into political complexities regarding gender and related identity issues, such as women's roles in society and their relation to men, and provides a fascinating insight into gendered power dynamics in contemporary American popular culture."--Back cover.

Subject

• Marvel Entertainment Group
• Women in motion pictures
• Superhero films > History and criticism
• Superhero films

Genre/Form

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-306), filmography (pages [264]-266) and index.

Contents

Introducing...the mighty women of Marvel! : Comics on screen: What is at stake in representing Marvel women? ; The (super)power of feminist film studies ; We're in this together now: mediating womanhood through postfeminist culture -- 'You have a knack for saving my life!': wives, girlfriends and women in refrigerators in Marvel films : Damsels in distress and women in refrigerators across media ; Women in refrigerators in Marvel film adaptations -- Pepper Potts and Gwen Stacy: recuperating the superhero girlfriend : Iron (Wo)Man ; The amazing Gwen Stacy -- With great power comes great frustration? Configurations of hero(ine)ism in Marvel films : Superheroines and postfeminist media culture ; With great power comes great frustration -- Playing superheroine: feminine subjectivity and (postfeminist) masquerade : 'I want you to be the best version of yourself': postfeminist masquerade and subjectivity in Captain Marvel -- Marvel legacy: girl heroism and intergenerationality in Marvel films : Interconnected womanhood in Elektra ; All-new, all-different: the legacy of Wolverine in Logan -- Mad with power: female villainy in Marvel films : Wicked witches and poisonous women ; Disease, toxicity and poison in Marvel's evil women ; Make Asgard great again: villainy and the feminine spectre of white supremacy in Thor: Ragnarok -- Mutants, cyborgs and femininity unfixed? Addressing the gendered bodies of Mystique and Nebula : Fluid gender and the politics of the X-Men films ; The strangest superhero of all: Nebula's cyborg subjectivity -- Disrupting the rainbow bridge: dysfunctional heterosexuality and reinforcing gender difference in Marvel adaptations ; Dysfunctional heterosexuality in Marvel films -- Black skin, blue skin: race and femininity in Marvel films : The politics of 'diversity' in Marvel properties -- The (Afro)future of a diverse Marvel: gender, race and empire in Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther : Asgard as a people: racial ambiguity in Thor: Ragnarok's heroines ; Wakanda forever: black femininity and the (Afro)future -- Afterword: Some concluding remarks on Marvel women...thus far!

Call Number

MFL 21-1899

ISBN

• 9781474448826
• 1474448828

OCLC

1233306080

Author

Kent, Miriam, author.

Title

Women in Marvel films / Miriam Kent.

Publisher

Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, [2021]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages [267]-306), filmography (pages [264]-266) and index.

Research Call Number

MFL 21-1899