The Claremont Run
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-2545-2 (ISBN)
By the time Chris Claremont's run as author of Uncanny X-Men ended in 1991, he had changed comic books forever. During his sixteen years writing the series, Claremont revitalized a franchise on the verge of collapse, shaping the X-Men who appear in today's Hollywood blockbusters. But, more than that, he told a new kind of story, using his growing platform to articulate transgressive ideas about gender nonconformity, toxic masculinity, and female empowerment.
J. Andrew Deman's investigation pairs close reading and quantitative analysis to examine gender representation, content, characters, and story structure. The Claremont Run compares several hundred issues of Uncanny X-Men with a thousand other Marvel comics to provide a comprehensive account of Claremont's sophisticated and progressive gender politics. Claremont's X-Men upended gender norms: where female characters historically served as mere eye candy, Claremont's had leading roles and complex, evolving personalities. Perhaps more surprisingly, his male superheroes defied and complicated standards of masculinity. Groundbreaking in their time, Claremont's comics challenged readers to see the real world differently and transformed pop culture in the process.
J. Andrew Deman is on the faculty in the Department of English Language and Literature at St. Jerome’s University and the author of The Margins of Comics: The Construction of Women, Minorities, and the Geek in Graphic Narrative.
Foreword. A Danger Room of One’s Own by Jay Edidin
Introduction. X-Women to Watch Out For
Chapter 1. Jean, Moira, and the Archetypal “Claremont Woman”
Chapter 2. Storm: From Mother Goddess to Resolutely Indefinable
Chapter 3. Ladies Night and the Second Generation of Claremont Women
Chapter 4. She Makes Him Nervous: Cyclops’s Baseline Masculinity and the Exchange of Gender Power
Chapter 5. Wolverine as Subversive Masculine Paradigm
Chapter 6. A Spectrum of “Men”: Refracting Masculinities through Nightcrawler and Havok
Conclusion. A Legacy in Waiting
Acknowledgments
Notes
References
Index
| Erscheinungsdatum | 24.11.2023 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Austin, TX |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 150 x 250 mm |
| Gewicht | 666 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik | |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4773-2545-X / 147732545X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4773-2545-2 / 9781477325452 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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