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Deman, J. Andrew

 
9781477330753: The Claremont Run: Subverting Gender in the X-Men
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ISBN 10 : 1477330755 ISBN 13 : 9781477330753
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2024

Synopsis

Winner -- 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in Best Academic/Scholarly Work, announced at San Diego Comic-Con International (2024)

A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author's subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time.

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

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.

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Éditeur
University of Texas Press
Date d'édition
2024
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1477330755
ISBN 13 
9781477330753
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
176
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ISBN 10 :  147732545X ISBN 13 :  9781477325452
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2023
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