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Informationen zum Autor Lorna Piatti-Farnell is professor of film and popular culture at Auckland University of Technology, where she is also director of the Popular Culture Research Centre. Klappentext 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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 ...
