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The supervillain reader /
This book, featuring both reprinted and original essays, reveals why we are so fascinated with the villain. The obsession with the villain is not a new phenomenon, and, in fact, one finds villains who are "super" going as far back as ancient religious and mythological texts. This collectio...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2020]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword. Building a better bad guy / Stephen Graham Jones
- Introduction. It's all about the villain! / Robert G. Weiner, Robert Moses Peaslee, and Duncan Prettyman
- Section 1: Moral philosophies and taxonomies of villainy. Dividing lines: a brief taxonomy of moral identity / A. G. Holdier ; Superheroes, "moral economy," and the "iron cage": morality, alienation, and the super-individual / Robert Moses Peaslee ; What Magneto cannot choose / Jared Poon ; Excerpts from "The Functions of Dramatis Personae" / Vladimir Propp ; The supervillain / Peter Coogan ; Vivisecting the villain: a framework for the analysis of enemy image construction in cinema / Lennart Soberon ; Sorting out villainy: a typology of villains and their effects on superheroes / Robin S. Rosenberg ; Implacable henchmen? From the Iliad's Myrmidons to the wild hunt of The Witcher / Cait Mongrain and David D. Perlmutter
- Section 2: Supervillainy in myth and literature. Aṅgulimāla: Buddha's original "super foe" / John N. Thompson ; Shakespeare's villains / Maurice Charney ; Shakespeare's supervillain: Coriolanus / Jerold J. Abrams ; Milton's Satan / John Carey ; "More demon than man": Melville's Ahab as Gothic villain / Tony Magistrale ; The bat, the cat...and the eagle? Irene Adler as inspiration for Catwoman / Richard D. Heldenfels ; Vilifications: conjuring witches then and now / Hannah Ryan ; Voldemort's "unusual evil" / Adam Davidson-Harden
- Section 3: Supervillainy in cinema and television. Caligari / Siegfried Kracauer ; Destructive villain or gigantic hero? The transformation of Godzilla in contemporary popular culture / Stefan Danter ; Harley Quinn, villain, vixen, victim: exploring her origins in Batman: the Animated Series / Joe Cruz and Lars Stoltzfus-Brown ; "You were the chosen one!" Darth Vader and the sequential dynamics of villainy in the Star Wars prequel trilogy / Tara Lomax ; TV serial killers: the configuration of a new concept of villain / Víctor Hernández-Santaolalla and Alberto Hermida ; The kingpin: a "princely" villain for social and political change / Ryan Litsey
- Section 4: Supervillainy in comics and sequential art. Comics codes and parameters for villain construction in sequential art / Robert G. Weiner and the Comics Magazine Association of America ; Excerpt from "The Sun God and the Dark Knight" / Grant Morrison ; Disability and the silver age supervillain / José Alaniz ; Art imitates life: Nixon as villain in the pages of Captain America / Richard Hall ; The absence of black supervillains in mainstream comics / Phillip Lamarr Cunningham ; Making America great again, you foolsssss: neoliberal snake charmers in Marvel's G.I. Joe: A Real American Hero / J. Richard Stevens ; The outing of Superman; or, how I learned to love Bizarro as a trans monster / Dan Vena ; A darker truth underneath: Bucky Barnes and Captain America / Naja Later ; Excerpts from Japanese Demon Lore: Oni from Ancient Times to the Present / Noriko T. Reider ; Where did Superman's white hat go? Villainy and heroism in Superman: Red Son / W. D. Phillips ; From perfect hero to murderous villain: a comparative analysis between the fallen god heroes of Irredeemable and Injustice: Gods Among Us / Matthew McEniry ; Distortions of supervillainy, radical interiority, and victimhood in Sam Kieth's The Maxx / Tiffany Hong
- Afterword. Gloriously flawed saviors / Randy Duncan.