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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823931303321

Autore

Brown Jeffrey A. <1966->

Titolo

Panthers, Hulks and Ironhearts : Marvel, diversity, and the twenty-first-century superhero / / Jeffrey A. Brown

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New Brunswick, New Jersey : , : Rutgers University Press, , [2021]

©2021

ISBN

1-9788-0925-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (vii, 168 pages) : illustrations

Disciplina

741.59

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction: Marvel and Modern America -- 1. Spider-Analogues: Unmarking and Unmasking White Male Superheroism -- 2. The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender, and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics -- 3. Superdad: Luke Cage and Heroic Fatherhood in the Civil War Comic -- 4. Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification, and Appropriation -- 5. Iron Fist: Ethnicity, Appropriation, and Repatriation -- 6. Totally Awesome Asian Heroes versus Stereotypes -- 7. A New America: Marvelous Latinx Superheroes -- 8. Ms. Marvel: A Thoroughly Relatable Muslim Superheroine -- Afterword: “Because the World Still Needs Heroes!” -- References -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Marvel is one of the hottest media companies in the world right now, and its beloved superheroes are all over film, television and comic books. Yet rather than simply cashing in on the popularity of iconic white male characters like Peter Parker, Tony Stark and Steve Rogers, Marvel has consciously diversified its lineup of superheroes, courting controversy in the process. 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. If the superhero comic is a quintessentially American creation, then how might the increasing diversification of Marvel’s superhero lineup reveal a fundamental shift in our understanding of American identity? This timely study answers those questions and considers what Marvel’s comics, TV series, and films might teach us about stereotyping, Orientalism, repatriation, whitewashing, and identification.

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910965861703321

Titolo

Biology, computation and linguistics : new interdisciplinary paradigms / / edited by Gemma Bel-Enguix, Veronica Dahl and M. Dolores Jiménez-López

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Amsterdam, The Netherlands, : IOS Press, 2011

ISBN

6613289809

1-283-28980-6

9786613289803

1-60750-762-5

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (260 p.)

Collana

Frontiers in artificial intelligence and applications, , 0922-6389 ; ; v. 228

Disciplina

006.301

600

Soggetti

Biolinguistics

Computational biology

Computational linguistics

Artificial intelligence - Biological applications

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Nota di contenuto

pt. 1. Computer science-biology -- pt. 2. Biology-linguistics -- pt. 3. Linguistics-computer science.

Sommario/riassunto

Over time, the root discipline of philosophy separated into many disciplines and sub-disciplines, each of which has developed its own specific methods. Whilst cross-disciplinary interaction between the



three vertices of biology, computing and language processing has often occurred quite naturally in the past, these interactions were mostly two-way, because combining more than two disciplines presents significant challenges. But for some disciplines, reaching out to others is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, and an inverse process of integration is now required.