Ulteriori informazioni

Titolo: Supersex – Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
Condizione: Nuovo
EAN: 9781477321607
ISBN: 9781477321607
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Formato: Copertina rigida
Data di pubblicazione: 08/12/2020
Lingua: inglese
Paese di origine: US
Altezza: 229mm
Lunghezza: 152mm
Larghezza: 25mm
Contribuyente: Anna Peppard (Edited by)
Autore: Anna Peppard
Genere: Society & Culture
Serie: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
Description:

2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited Collection

From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both.

From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself--seemingly obvious yet conspicuously absent. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero is the first scholarly book specifically devoted to unpacking the superhero genre's complicated relationship with sexuality.

Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books, television shows, and films as well as independent and explicitly pornographic productions catering to various orientations and kinks, Supersex offers a fresh--and lascivious--perspective on the superhero genre's historical and contemporary popularity. Across fourteen essays touching on Superman, Batman, the X-Men, and many others, Anna F. Peppard and her contributors present superhero sexuality as both dangerously exciting and excitingly dangerous, encapsulating the superhero genre's worst impulses and its most productively rebellious ones. Supersex argues that sex is at the heart of our fascination with superheroes, even--and sometimes especially--when the capes and tights stay on.


Soggetto: Social Sciences, LGBTQ+, Gender Sex & Relationships
ISBN-10: 1477321608
Peso: 740g
Title Format: Hardback
Anno di pubblicazione: 2020

Informazioni mancanti?

Non esitare a contattarci se mancano informazioni su questo articolo: provvederemo a verificare ed aggiungerle.