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Table of Contents:

• Intro
• Introduction. Presence and Absence in Theory and Practice: Locating Supersex (Anna F. Peppard)
• Part I. Comics
• 1. Tarpé Mills's Miss Fury: Costume, Sexuality, and Power (Richard Reynolds)
• 2. Superman Family Values: Supersex in the Silver Age (Matt Yockey)
• 3. A Storm of Passion: Sexual Agency and Symbolic Capital in the X-Men's Storm (J. Andrew Deman)
• 4. Dazzler, Melodrama, and Shame: Mutant Allegory, Closeted Readers (Brian Johnson)
• 5. "Super-Gay" Gay Comix: Tracing the Underground Origins and Cultural Resonances of LGBTQ Superheroes (Sarah Panuska)
• 6. Parents, Counterpublics, and Sexual Identity in Young Avengers (Keith Friedlander)
• Part II. Film, Television, and Fan Culture
• 7. X-Men Films and the Domestication of Dissent: Sexuality, Race, and Respectability (Christopher B. Zeichmann)
• 8. Over the Rainbow Bridge: Female/Queer Sexuality in Marvel's Thor Film Trilogy (Samantha Langsdale)
• 9. "No One's Going to Be Looking at Your Face": The Female Gaze and the New (Super)Man in Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman (Anna F. Peppard)
• 10. The Visible and the Invisible: Superheroes, Pornography, and Phallic Masculinity (Jeffrey A. Brown)
• 11. "I Think That's My Favorite Weapon in the Whole Batcave": Interrogating the Subversions of Men.com's Gay Superhero Porn Parodies (Joseph Brennan)
• 12. "That's Pussy Babe!": Queering Supergirl's Confessions of Power (Olivia Hicks)
• 13. Meet Stephanie Rogers, Captain America: Genderbending the Body Politic in Fan Art, Fiction, and Cosplay (Anne Kustritz)
• Epilogue: The Matter with Size (Richard Harrison)
• Contributors
• Index

Contributors:

Peppard, Anna F., editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Supersex (First edition; Austin : University of Texas Press, 2020 — ISBN 9781477321607; LCCN 2020008797; OCLC Number 1147951374)

Related Series:

World comics and graphic nonfiction series

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism
Superheroes
Superhero films > History and criticism
Superhero television programs > History and criticism
Sex in literature
Sex in motion pictures
Sex on television
Comic books, strips, etc.
Superhero films
Superhero television programs
United States

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN6714 .S88 2020eb

ISBNs:

9781477321621 (electronic bk.)
1477321624 (electronic bk.)
9781477321607 [Invalid]
1477321608 [Invalid]
9781477321614 [Invalid]
1477321616 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1228016688