Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero

2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited Collection From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young...
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Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero by Peppard, Anna

Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero

$215.18

Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero

$215.18
Author: Anna Peppard
Format: Hardcover
Language: English

2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited Collection

From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both.

From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes of today, superheroes have always been sexy. And their sexiness has always been controversial, inspiring censorship and moral panic. Yet though it has inspired jokes and innuendos, accusations of moral depravity, and sporadic academic discourse, the topic of superhero sexuality is like superhero sexuality itself--seemingly obvious yet conspicuously absent. Supersex: Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero is the first scholarly book specifically devoted to unpacking the superhero genre's complicated relationship with sexuality.

Exploring sexual themes and imagery within mainstream comic books, television shows, and films as well as independent and explicitly pornographic productions catering to various orientations and kinks, Supersex offers a fresh--and lascivious--perspective on the superhero genre's historical and contemporary popularity. Across fourteen essays touching on Superman, Batman, the X-Men, and many others, Anna F. Peppard and her contributors present superhero sexuality as both dangerously exciting and excitingly dangerous, encapsulating the superhero genre's worst impulses and its most productively rebellious ones. Supersex argues that sex is at the heart of our fascination with superheroes, even--and sometimes especially--when the capes and tights stay on.



Author: Anna Peppard
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 12/08/2020
Pages: 384
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.59lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d
ISBN: 9781477321607


Review Citation(s):
Foreword 10/26/2020

About the Author
Peppard, Anna: - Anna F. Peppard is a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada postdoctoral fellow in Brock University's Department of Communication, Popular Culture, and Film. She has published widely on representations of gender, race, and sexuality in popular media, including comic books, television, and sports culture. She is a regular contributor to the podcast Three Panel Contrast.

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