Supervillains

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Supervillains

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Author: Nao Tomabechi

Type: PAPERBACK

ISBN: 9781978839373

Date: 10th February, 2025

Publisher: RUTGERS UNIVERSITY PRESS

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  2. Cultural And Media Studies
  3. Cultural And Media Studies
  4. Fiction, Novelists and Prose Writers

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Alongside superheroes, supervillains, too, have become one of today's most popular and globally recognizable figures. However, it is not merely their popularity that marks their significance. Supervillains are also central to superhero storytelling to the extent that the superhero genre cannot survive without supervillains. Bringing together different approaches and critical perspectives across disciplines, author Nao Tomabechi troubles overly hero-centered works in comics studies to reconsider the modern American myths of the superheroes. Considering the likes of Lex Luthor, the Joker, Catwoman, Harley Quinn, Loki, Venom, and more, Supervillians explores themes such as gender and sexuality, disability, and many forms of Otherness in relation to the notion of evil as it appears in the superhero genre. The book investigates how supervillains uphold and, at times, trouble dominant ideals expressed by the heroism of our superheroes.

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