Gender Roles In Superhero Movies
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Author | : Lucia Vitzthum |
Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 2017-03-09 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 3668413371 |
Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject English - Applied Geography, grade: 1,0, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: Superhero movies have been the biggest money-making machine in recent years. Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Iron man all have been successful movies and all protagonists have been male. This work aims to examine the role of women in superhero movies and how they have changed. This work also differentiates between women as the main character and women in superhero teams like "The Avengers".
Author | : Carolyn Cocca |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2016-09-08 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1501316567 |
Explores the production, representation, and reception of prominent female superheroes in mainstream superhero comics, television shows, and films.
Author | : Miriam Kent |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 324 |
Release | : 2021-02-28 |
Genre | : Comics & Graphic Novels |
ISBN | : 9781474448826 |
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.
Author | : Jessica Rauch |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 104 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Thesis |
ISBN | : |
Because many members of society have seen movies involving one or more superheroes, individuals begin, possibly unknowingly, to create stereotypes of what people should look or act like. These stereotypes help establish what gender roles, appearances, and images of violence are deemed acceptable in society. Thus, it is important to understand the content in such movies. In this study, data from a content analysis of superhero movies was analyzed to examine the differences of gender images portrayed within the movies. Males were more likely to appear as the main character, be more muscular and powerful, have more special abilities, and use more weapons. Females were more likely to be portrayed as attractive, sexy, thin, and wear more revealing clothing. The messages portrayed through superhero movies are discussed.
Author | : Angela Ndalianis |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 510 |
Release | : 2009-05-07 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1135213933 |
Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that consume them, their formulas, conventions, and narrative worlds have altered to follow suit, injecting new, unpredictable and more challenging characterizations that engage ravenous readers who increasingly demand more.
Author | : Jeffrey A. Brown |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 192 |
Release | : 2021-11-19 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1978825285 |
Impossibly muscular men and voluptuous women parade around in revealing, skintight outfits, and their romantic and sexual entanglements are a key part of the ongoing drama. Such is the state of superhero comics and movies, a genre that has become one of our leading mythologies, conveying influential messages about gender, sexuality, and relationships. Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes examines a full range of superhero media, from comics to films to television to merchandising. With a keen eye for the genre’s complex and internally contradictory mythology, comics scholar Jeffrey A. Brown considers its mixed messages. Superhero comics may reinforce sex roles with their litany of phallic musclemen and slinky femme fatales, but they also blur gender binaries with their emphasis on transformation and body swaps. Similarly, while most heroes have heterosexual love interests, the genre prioritizes homosocial bonding, and it both celebrates and condemns gendered and sexualized violence. With examples spanning from the Golden Ages of DC and Marvel comics up to recent works like the TV series The Boys, this study provides a comprehensive look at how superhero media shapes our perceptions of love, sex, and gender.
Author | : Richard J. Gray II |
Publisher | : McFarland |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2011-09-07 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 0786487305 |
Superhero films are one of the most enduring genres of cinema, and their popularity is only increasing in the 21st century. These ten critical essays explore the phenomenon through the lenses of numerous academic disciplines, and cover topics such as the role of globalization in the formation of superhero narratives, the shifting nature of masculinity and femininity in the superhero world and the state of the genre today. Of particular interest is the way these narratives, however fantastic, abstract, futuristic or simplistic, resonate with specific events in the world and function as starting points for discussion of contemporary sociopolitical conflicts.
Author | : Blair Davis |
Publisher | : Rutgers University Press |
Total Pages | : 151 |
Release | : 2018-06-25 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 0813588790 |
Comic Book Movies explores how this genre serves as a source for modern-day myths, sometimes even incorporating ancient mythic figures like Thor and Wonder Woman’s Amazons, while engaging with the questions that haunt a post-9/11 world: How do we define heroism and morality today? How far are we willing to go when fighting terror? How can we resist a dystopian state? Film scholar Blair Davis also considers how the genre’s visual style is equally important as its weighty themes, and he details how advances in digital effects have allowed filmmakers to incorporate elements of comic book art in innovative ways. As he reveals, comic book movies have inspired just as many innovations to Hollywood’s business model, with film franchises and transmedia storytelling helping to ensure that the genre will continue its reign over popular culture for years to come.
Author | : Randy Duncan |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 714 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 082642936X |
Offers undergraduate students with an understanding of the comics medium and its communication potential. This book deals with comic books and graphic novels. It focuses on comic books because in their longer form they have the potential for complexity of expression.
Author | : Yvonne Tasker |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 248 |
Release | : 2002-09-11 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1134826591 |
Working Girls investigates the thematic concerns of contemporary Hollywood cinema, and its ambivalent articulation of women as both active, and defined by sexual performance, asking whether new Hollywood cinema has responded to feminism and contemporary sexual identities. Whether analysing the rise of films centred around female friendships, or the entrance of pop stars such as Whitney Houston and Madonna into film, Working Girls is an authoritative investigation of the presence of women both as film makers and actors in contemporary mainstream cinema.