The Force of The Umbrella Academy

Essays on Voices and Violence in the Comics and Netflix Series

Buch | Softcover

277 Seiten

2022
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-8200-6 (ISBN)

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These essays give a voice to the misunderstood family members of The Umbrella Academy in the comic book series and its highly popular Netflix adaptation. They explore different forces, including individualism, identity, family, and feminism.

Even as the major superhero film franchises appear to be exhausting their runs The Umbrella Academy demonstrates that the superhero genre is still extremely effective at creating role models with lasting psychological resonance and allegories with extraordinary emotional impact. These essays give a voice to the misunderstood family members of The Umbrella Academy in the comic book series and its highly popular Netflix adaptation. They explore different forces like individualism, identity, family, and feminism. One of the most striking features that unites these concepts is the linkage between violence with voice, as well as violence's aestheticized depiction.

Lisann Anders' research interests include literary adaptations in film and popular culture from Shakespeare to Disney. She lives in Zurich, Switzerland.

Introduction
Lisann Anders
Part 1: Forces of Identity
Gothic Academy: Horror and Crookedness in a Haunted Household
Kathleen Shaughnessy
Liminal Spaces: Being Alone in a House That Isn't Home
Miranda Johnsen
Superheroes, Transnational Adoption, and Hegelian Estrangement
Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Part 2: Forces of Otherness
Artifice and the Superheroes of the 21st Century: Post-Cinematic Reflections on Constructedness
Morgane A. Ghilardi
Extraordinary Bodies and the Language of Pain: Disability in Apocalypse Suite and Dallas
Dana Fore
Part 3: Forces of Violence
Domestic Abuse: Normative Violence and Child-Superheroes
Alokparna Sen
Crystal Moments: Sites of Music and Violence
Lisann Anders
Dissonance: Striking a Chord Through the Silencing of Women's Voices
J.E. Hornsby
About the Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.12.2021
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	247 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4766-8200-3 / 1476682003
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-8200-6 / 9781476682006
Zustand	Neuware