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The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adaptation, re-imagining, and re-making.
List of contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
Part I: Across Platforms and Formats
1.¬From Cinematic to Podcast Universe: Wolverine: The Long Night and the Multiplication of the Marvel Multiverse
Cory Barker
2.The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion
Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan
3.Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video Games
Carl Wilson
4."I feel like I'm getting my Wonder Woman back,": Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, Fans, and Authenticities in the DC Extended Universe
Joan Ormrod
5.Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero Cinema
James C. Taylor
Part II: Transformative Meanings
6.Reanimating Witchcraft: Creating A Feminist Embodied Experience in Marvel's Scarlet Witch
Forrest Johnson
7.Resurrecting the Hero: Disrupted Histories, Ghostly Returns, and Gothic Transformations in MCU's Captain America
Lorna Piatti-Farnell
8.Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica Jones
Matthew Thompson
9.Super-heroine Objectification: The Sexualization of Black Widow Across Comic and Film Adaptations
Angelique Nairn
10.An 'Extra-Ordinary' Adaptation: Exploring Time and Trauma in The Umbrella Academy
Carmel Cedro and Blair Speakman
11.Battle of the Black Superheroes: Or, Why Blade Will Never Live in Wakanda
Simon Bacon
Part III: Transnational Dialogues and Evolving Political Contexts
12.From "Bat-Manga" to "Attack on Avengers": Transnational Superhero Adaptations Between Japan and America
Anne Lee
13.Kamen Rider, Masked and Unmasked: Tales of Transcultural Transformation
Sophia Staite
14.Spider-Man, The Panopticon, and The Normalization of Mass Surveillance
Demi Schänzel
15.Adapting Judge Dredd: Civic Guardian or Hyperviolent Cop?
Justin Matthews
16.All the President's Supermen: Political Appropriations of Superhero Rhetoric
Michael Soares
Index
About the Contributors
About the author
Edited by Lorna Piatti-Farnell - Contributions by Lorna Piatti-Farnell; Cory Barker; Whitney Hardin; Julia E. Kiernan; Carl Wilson; Joan Ormrod; James C. Taylor; Forrest Johnson; Matthew Thompson; Angelique Nairn; Carmel Cedro; Blair Speakman; Simon Bacon
Summary
The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adaptation, re-imagining, and re-making.
