Supersex : : Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero /

Supersex : : Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero / / ed. by Anna Peppard.

2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited Collection 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 i...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2020
MitwirkendeR:
Brennan, Joseph,
Brown, Jeffrey A.,
Deman, J. Andrew,
Friedlander, Keith,
Harrison, Richard,
Hicks, Olivia,
Johnson, Brian,
Kustritz, Anne,
Langsdale, Samantha,
Panuska, Sarah M.,
Peppard, Anna F.,
Reynolds, Richard,
Yockey, Matt,
Zeichmann, Christopher B.,
HerausgeberIn:
Peppard, Anna,
Place / Publishing House:Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2022]
©2020
Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
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Physical Description:1 online resource (384 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • INTRODUCTION. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex
  • PART I. COMICS
  • 1. Tarpé Mills’s Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power
  • 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age
  • 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men’s Storm
  • 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers
  • 5. “Super-Gay” Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes
  • 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers
  • PART II. FILM, TELEVISION, AND FAN CULTURE
  • 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability
  • 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel’s Thor Film Trilogy
  • 9. “No One’s Going to Be Looking at Your Face”: The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman
  • 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity
  • 11. “I Think That’s My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave”: Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com’s Gay Superhero Porn Parodies
  • 12. “That’s Pussy Babe!”: Queering Supergirl’s Confessions of Power
  • 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay
  • EPILOGUE: The Matter with Size
  • CONTRIBUTORS
  • INDEX

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