LIBROS DEL AUTOR: jeffrey a brown

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  • The Modern Superhero in Film and Television
    Jeffrey A. Brown
    Hollywood’s live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense popularity reveals deep cultural concerns about politics, gender, ethnicity, patriotism and consumeris ...
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    80,28 €

  • Beyond Bombshells
    Jeffrey a Brown
    Beyond Bombshells analyzes the cultural importance of strong women in a variety of current media forms. Action heroines are now more popular in movies, comic books, television, and literature than they have ever been. Their spectacular presence represents shifting ideas about female agency, power, and sexuality. Beyond Bombshells explores how action heroines reveal and reconfig...
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    50,04 €

  • Black Superheros, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans
    Jeffrey A. Brown
    A history of the trailblazing comics that broke color barriers and portrayed African Americans in heroic storylines What do the comic book figures Static, Hardware, and Icon all have in common?Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans gives an answer that goes far beyond 'tights and capes,' an answer that lies within the mission Milestone Media, Inc., assumed in comic...
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    50,13 €

  • Dangerous Curves
    Jeffrey A. Brown
    Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture addresses the conflicted meanings associated with the figure of the action heroine as she has evolved in various media forms since the late 1980s. Jeffrey A. Brown discusses this immensely popular character type as an example of, and challenge to, existing theories about gender as a performance identity. ...
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    50,02 €