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Disability and the superhero : essays on ableism and representation in comic media
- Title
- Disability and the superhero : essays on ableism and representation in comic media / edited by Amber E. George.
- Publication
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
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Details
- Additional Authors
- George, Amber E.
- Description
- vi, 187 pages; 23 cm
- Summary
- "This is a collection of essays that analyze the presence of ableism in superhero narratives from television shows, films, and comics. Contributors use critical disability studies, media studies, cultural studies, and other interdisciplinary fields to unveil the misinformation, stigma, and exclusion caused by ableist representations of disability or disability-related experiences. Ableism is unmasked in media franchises such as DC Comics, Marvel, Sesame Street, and more. These essays go beyond what is currently available in critical disability superhero studies, and explore both the well-known and lesser-known characters including Iron Man, Daredevil, Dr. Strange, Thor, Nick Fury, Jessica Jones, War Machine, Wonder Woman, Dr. Poison, the Joker, Bucky Barnes, Punisher, Rocket and Groot, Luke Cage, Captain America, and Sesame Street's Super Grover. They also offer insightful intersectional analyses of entire series, films, and shows such as Arrowverse and The Ables"--
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Film criticism.
- Comics criticism.
- Television criticism and reviews.
- Essays.
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Introduction: Making sense of superheroes and their social identities / Amber E. George -- Hyper-normative heroes, othered villains: differential disability narratives in the Marvel Cinematic Universe / Kelly A. Kane -- Living in the mutant underground: Marvel's The Gifted / Sue Scheibler -- Isolation, overcoming, and the filmic stare in the Marvel Cinematic Universe's Iron Man films / Grace McCarthy -- Tech as ableist tool: understanding the role of disability in the Arrowverse series / Courtney Stanton -- Cultural appropriation and ableism: Dr. Strange's strange concoction / Shanti Srinivas -- Of sexism and ableism: Wonder Woman's (ab)use of disability / Tatiana Prorokova-Konrad -- Assimilating queer/disabled subjects in Marvel superhero fanfiction / Divya Garg -- Enabling new perspectives of (super)power and disability in Jeremy Scott's The Ables / Robin E. Field and Christopher Boucher -- "It is I, Super Grover, here to challenge ableism!" / Daisy L. Breneman -- The Joker: disrupting perceptions of (dis)ability in Batman comic books / Sean Thomas Milligan.
- Call Number
- MFL 23-4335
- ISBN
- 9781476680972
- 1476680973
- LCCN
- 2023006967
- OCLC
- 1355062924
- Title
- Disability and the superhero : essays on ableism and representation in comic media / edited by Amber E. George.
- Publisher
- Jefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2023]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Added Author
- George, Amber E., editor.
- Research Call Number
- MFL 23-4335