Toxic masculinity : mapping the monstrous in our heroes /

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Imprint:Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2020]
Description:vii, 184 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12410040
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Other authors / contributors:De Dauw, Esther, editor.
Connell, Daniel James, editor.
ISBN:9781496828934
1496828933
9781496828941
1496828941
9781496828989
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"The superhero permeates popular culture from comic books to film and television to internet memes, merchandise, and street art. As of 2018, Marvel Studios and DC Films have produced over twenty male-centric films, but only two female-centric films. Despite growing popular interest in and scholarly attention to female superheroes, most superheroes in the current cultural landscape are men. Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes asks what kind of men these heroes are and if they are worthy of the unbalanced amount of attention. Contributors to the volume investigate how the (super)hero in popular culture conveys messages about heroism and masculinity, considering the social implications of this narrative within a cultural (re)production of dominant, hegemonic values and the possibility of subaltern ideas, norms, and values to be imagined within that (re)production. Divided into three sections, the volume takes an interdisciplinary approach, positioning the impact of hypermasculinity on toxic masculinity and the vilification of "other" identities through such mediums as film, TV, and print comic book literature. The first part, "Understanding Super Men," analyzes hegemonic masculinity and the spectrum of hypermasculinity through comics, television, and film, while the second part, "The Monstrous Other," focuses on queer identity and femininity in these same mediums. The final section, "Strategies of Resistance," offers criticism and solutions to the existing lack of diversity through targeted studies on the performance of gender. Ultimately, the volume identifies the ways in which superhero narratives have promulgated and glorified toxic masculinity and offers alternative strategies to consider how characters can resist the hegemonic model and productively demonstrate new masculinities"--
Other form:Online version: Toxic masculinity Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2020. 9781496828958

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505 0 |a Introduction: the subaltern and the hegemonic -- The simulacrum of hypermasculinity in comic book cinema / Daniel James Cromwell -- Renewing hegemonic masculinity every wednesday: Arrow and television form / James C. Taylor -- "I'll show you what it means to be a man": hegemonic masculinity of Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice / Janne Salminen -- The monstrous in Batwoman: military masculinity and domestic spaces / Esther De Dauw -- Days of Future Past: queer identities and the X-Men / Drew Murphy -- Torchwood's supermen: bisexuality as a hypermasculine superpower / Craig Haslop -- Emma Frost, the White Queen: superpowers as the performance of gender / Richard Reynolds -- Albus Dumbledore and the curse of toxic masculinity / Karen Sugrue -- Conclusion: reflecting on toxic masculinity -- Bibliography -- Contributors -- Index. 
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