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Author: Jeffrey A. Brown
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Imprint: Rutgers University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.60cm
, Height: 2.00cm
, Length: 23.50cm
Weight: 0.004kg
ISBN: 9781978809222
ISBN 10: 1978809220
Pages: 180
Publication Date: 15 January 2021
Recommended Age: From 16 to 99 years
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: In Print
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Reviews
Jeffrey Brown does it again! With his usual compelling style of writing, this time we are treated to a very timely analysis of Marvel's contemporary multicultural superheroes and their complex entanglements. The significance of this text is its sophisticated way of unpacking the pop cultural panoply of ideology, history, and identity in which the superhero aesthetic is inextricably confined. --Ronald L. Jackson II co-author of the Comic-Con award winning book, Black Comics
"""Jeffrey Brown does it again! With his usual compelling style of writing, this time we are treated to a very timely analysis of Marvel’s contemporary multicultural superheroes and their complex entanglements. The significance of this text is its sophisticated way of unpacking the pop cultural panoply of ideology, history, and identity in which the superhero aesthetic is inextricably confined.""— Ronald L. Jackson II, co-author of the Comic-Con award winning book, Black Comics ""Panthers, Hulks, and Ironhearts offers the first comprehensive study of how Marvel has reimagined what a superhero might look like in the twenty-first century. It examines how they have revitalized older characters like Black Panther and Luke Cage, while creating new ones like Latina superhero Miss America. Furthermore, it considers the mixed fan responses to Marvel’s recasting of certain 'legacy heroes,' including a Pakistani-American Ms. Marvel, a Korean-American Hulk, and a whole rainbow of multiverse Spidermen.""— Forces of Geek ""Smash Pages QA: Jeffrey A. Brown: The pop culture scholar discusses his latest books on superheroes, diversity and gender""— SmashPages ""[Brown] has written a wonderfully readable book whose academic posture does not make it any less appealing to the layperson or the aficionado.""— South China Morning Post"
Author Information
JEFFREY A. BROWN is a professor in the Department of Popular Culture and the School of Critical and Cultural Studies at Bowling Green State University in Ohio. His many books include Black Superheroes: Milestone Comics and Their Fans and Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus.
