Superheroes and Excess: A Philosophical Adventure

ISBN-13: 9781138304536 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 288 str.

Jamie Brassett; Richard Reynolds

Opis

Finding the superhero genre in need of further investigation from philosophical standpoints that value excess as a creative drive, rather than denigrate it as a problem to be resolved, this book opens up discussions that highlight different approaches to ‘the creative excess of being’ as expressed through the genre.

Spis treści

1.Introduction;  2. Excessive Embodiment and Monstrous Containment in Stan Lee and Jack Kirby’s The Fantastic Four;  3. Legion, Fugue and Ontological Excess;  4. Captain America, Ronald Reagan, and the Battle for the American Dream of Excess;  5. Image Comics: A New Flight of Excess;  6. ‘You Too Shall Be New’: Synthezoid Phenomenology and Canonical Memory in The Vision;  7. Evolve or Die: Logan, Repetition, and the Excesses of Tradition;  8. Difference, Repetition, and the Superhero Comic;  9. Heroic Skin: Superheroes, Excess and Black Skin as Costume;  10. Too Many Wonder Womans: Constraining and/or in the DC Extended Universe;  11. Design Fictions from Beyond: A Pataphysics of Objectile Excess;  12. Superheroes at the Vanishing Point;  13. Afterword: Defeated Taxonomies