LEADER 04375nam 2200481 450 001 9910812299803321 005 20230413230908.0 010 $a0-8135-9720-X 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813597201 035 $a(CKB)4100000009590542 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5963055 035 $a(DE-B1597)637842 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813597201 035 $a(OCoLC)1125113021 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000009590542 100 $a20191122d2020 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 04$aThe superhero symbol $emedia, culture, and politics /$fedited by Liam Burke, Ian Gordon, and Angela Ndalianis 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2020] 210 4$dİ2020 215 $a1 online resource (337 pages) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-8135-9716-1 311 $a0-8135-9717-X 327 $tFrontmatter --$tCONTENTS --$tIntroduction ?Everlasting? Symbols --$tPart 1 Superheroes, Politics, and Civic Engagement --$t1 ?What Else Can You Do with Them?? Superheroes and the Civic Imagination --$t2 ?America Is a Piece of Trash? Captain America, Patriotism, Nationalism, and Fascism --$t3 ?This Land Is Mine!? Understanding the Function of Supervillains --$t4 An Interview with Comics Artist, Writer, and ?Herstorian? Trina Robbins --$tPart 2 The Superhero as Brand --$t5 The Secret Commercial Identity of Superheroes Protecting the Superhero Symbol --$t6 Siegel and Shuster as Brand Name --$t7 Practicing Superhuman Law Creative License, Industrial Identity, and Spider-Man?s Homecoming --$t8 The Sound of the Cinematic Superhero --$t9 An Interview with Former President of DC Entertainment Diane Nelson --$tPart 3 Becoming the Superhero --$t10 Arkham Knave The Joker in Game Design --$t11 Being Super, Becoming Heroes Dialogic Superhero Narratives in Cosplay Collectives --$t12 From Pages to Pavements A Criminological Comparison between Depictions of Crime Control in Superhero Narratives and ?Real-Life Superhero? Activity --$t13 An Interview with Dark Night: A True Batman Story Writer Paul Dini --$tPart 4 Superheroes and National Identity --$t14 Captain America, National Narratives, and the Queer Subversion of the Retcon --$t15 Apes, Angels, and Super Patriots The Irish in Superhero Comics --$t16 Missing in Action The Late Development of the German-Speaking Superhero --$t17 Chinese Milk for Iron Men Superhero Coproductions and Technological Anxiety --$t18 Age of the Atoman Australian Superhero Comics and Cold War Modernity --$t19 An Interview with Cleverman Creator Ryan Griffen and Star Hunter Page-Lochard --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tNOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS --$tINDEX 330 $a?As a man, I'm flesh and blood, I can be ignored, I can be destroyed; but as a symbol. as a symbol I can be incorruptible, I can be everlasting?. In the 2005 reboot of the Batman film franchise, Batman Begins, Bruce Wayne articulates how the figure of the superhero can serve as a transcendent icon. It is hard to imagine a time when superheroes have been more pervasive in our culture. Today, superheroes are intellectual property jealously guarded by media conglomerates, icons co-opted by grassroots groups as a four-color rebuttal to social inequities, masks people wear to more confidently walk convention floors and city streets, and bulletproof banners that embody regional and national identities. From activism to cosplay, this collection unmasks the symbolic function of superheroes. Bringing together superhero scholars from a range of disciplines, alongside key industry figures such as Harley Quinn co-creator Paul Dini, The Superhero Symbol provides fresh perspectives on how characters like Captain America, Iron Man, and Wonder Woman have engaged with media, culture, and politics, to become the ?everlasting? symbols to which a young Bruce Wayne once aspired. 606 $aSuperheroes$xSocial aspects 615 0$aSuperheroes$xSocial aspects. 676 $a741.5351 702 $aBurke$b Liam 702 $aGordon$b Ian$f1954-, 702 $aNdalianis$b Angela$f1960- 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910812299803321 996 $aThe superhero symbol$94112961 997 $aUNINA