Women in Marvel Films

ISBN-13: 9781474448833 / Angielski / Miękka / 2023

KENT MIRIAM

Spis treści

List of Figures
Acknowledgements

Introducing... The Mighty Women of Marvel!

Comics on Screen: What is at Stake in Representing Marvel Women?
The (Super)Power of Feminist Film Studies
We’re In This Together Now: Mediating Womanhood through Postfeminist Culture

1. ‘You have a knack for saving my life!’: Wives, Girlfriends and Women in Refrigerators in Marvel Films

Damsels in Distress and Women in Refrigerators across Media
Women in Refrigerators in Marvel Film Adaptations

2. Pepper Potts and Gwenn Stacy: Recuperating the Superhero Girlfriend

Iron (Wo)Man
The Amazing Gwen Stacy

3. With Great Power Comes Great Frustration? Configurations of Hero(ine)ism in Marvel Films

Superheroines and Postfeminist Media Culture
With Great Power Comes Great Frustration

4. Playing Superheroine: Feminine Subjectivity and (Postfeminist) Masquerade

‘I Want You to Be the Best Version of Yourself’: Postfeminist Masquerade and Subjectivity in Captain Marvel

5. Marvel Legacy: Girl Heroism and Intergenerationality and in Marvel Films

Interconnected Womanhood in Elektra
All-New, All-Different: The Legacy of Wolverine in Logan

6. Mad With Power: Female Villainy in Marvel Films

Wicked Witches and Poisonous Women
Disease, Toxicity and Poison in Marvel’s Evil Women
Make Asgard Great Again: Villainy and the Feminine Spectre of White Supremacy in Thor: Ragnarok (2017)

7. Mutants, Cyborgs and Femininity Unfixed? Addressing the Gendered Bodies of Mystique and Nebula

Fluid Gender and the Politics of the X-Men Films
The Strangest Superhero of All: Nebula’s Cyborg Subjectivity

8. Disrupting the Rainbow Bridge: Dysfunctional Heterosexuality and Reinforcing Gender Difference in Marvel Adaptations

Dysfunctional Heterosexuality in Marvel Films

9. Black Skin, Blue Skin: Race and Femininity in Marvel Films

The Politics of "Diversity" in Marvel Properties

10. The (Afro)Future of a Diverse Marvel: Gender, Race and Empire in Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther

Asgard as a People—Racial Ambiguity in Thor: Ragnarok’s Heroines
Wakanda Forever: Black Femininity and the (Afro)Future

Afterword: Some Concluding Remarks on Marvel Women… Thus Far!

Bibliography
Filmography
Index