Heroism as a global phenomenon in contemporary culture / / edited by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt and Nicole Falkenhayner.
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Superior document: | Routledge studies in cultural history |
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Place / Publishing House: | New York ;, London : : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,, 2019. |
Year of Publication: | 2019 |
Language: | English |
Series: | Routledge studies in cultural history.
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (258 pages). |
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : studying heroism from a global perspective / Barbara Korte and Simon Wendt
- "Like a cinema when the last of the audience has gone and only the staff remain" : Biggles and (post-)imperial heroism / Michael Goodrum
- Y'a bon? : popularizing the tirailleurs as heroes of (anti-)colonialism / Konstanze N'Guessan and Mareike Spath
- Princess of a different kingdom : cultural imperialism, female heroism, and the global performance of Walt Disney's Mulan and Moana / Sotirios Mouzakis
- One hero fits all? : cultural translations in Doctor Strange (2016) as "global hero" movie / Nicole Falkenhayner and Maria-Xenia Hardt
- Zashchitniki (Guardians) : a failed Russian-Soviet answer to Superman and Batman / Dietmar Neutatz
- "This beast in the shape of a man" : right-wing populism, white masculinity, and the transnational heroization of Donald Trump / Michael Butter
- Axe and helmet : the widening range of New York firefighters as (super-)heroes / Wolfgang Hochbruck
- Unlikely tragic (anti-)heroes : gangsters translated into Hindi films / Sugata Nandi
- Heroism and the pleasure and pain of mistranslation : the case of the act of killing / Ariel Heryanto
- Shaolin martial arts heroes in industrial Hong Kong : between colonialism, postcolonialism and globalism / Ricardo K. S. Mak
- Interhuman. interspecies. global : heroism in Wes Anderson's Isle of dogs (2018) / Ulrike Zimmermann
- Global heroism as a discursive tradition : a critical response / Ken Chitwood.