LEADER 03592oam 2200445 450 001 9910823931303321 005 20230629235600.0 010 $a1-9788-0925-5 024 7 $a10.36019/9781978809253 035 $a(CKB)4100000011706748 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6451952 035 $a(DE-B1597)590614 035 $a(OCoLC)1237097165 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781978809253 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011706748 100 $a20210613d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aPanthers, Hulks and Ironhearts $eMarvel, diversity, and the twenty-first-century superhero /$fJeffrey A. Brown 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$d©2021 215 $a1 online resource (vii, 168 pages) $cillustrations 311 $a1-9788-0922-0 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tIntroduction: Marvel and Modern America -- $t1. Spider-Analogues: Unmarking and Unmasking White Male Superheroism -- $t2. The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender, and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics -- $t3. Superdad: Luke Cage and Heroic Fatherhood in the Civil War Comic -- $t4. Black Panther: Aspiration, Identification, and Appropriation -- $t5. Iron Fist: Ethnicity, Appropriation, and Repatriation -- $t6. Totally Awesome Asian Heroes versus Stereotypes -- $t7. A New America: Marvelous Latinx Superheroes -- $t8. Ms. Marvel: A Thoroughly Relatable Muslim Superheroine -- $tAfterword: ?Because the World Still Needs Heroes!? -- $tReferences -- $tIndex 330 $aMarvel 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. 606 $aComic books, strips, etc$xHistory and criticism 610 $aComics, Book culture, Culture, America, Heroes, Black Panther, Media, Hulk, Iron Man, Media company, Latina, Superheroes, Miss America, Ms. Marvel, Characters, Diversity, Television, Film, Stereotypes, Whitewashing, Identity, Spiderman, Legacy. 615 0$aComic books, strips, etc.$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a741.59 700 $aBrown$b Jeffrey A.$f1966-$0896213 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910823931303321 996 $aPanthers, Hulks and Ironhearts$94118392 997 $aUNINA