Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Pages: 264
Trim: 6 x 9
978-1-4422-6533-2 • Hardback • February 2016 • $105.00 • (£81.00)
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Claudia Bucciferro is assistant professor of communication at Gonzaga University (Washington State). She is the author of FOR-GET: Identity, Media, and Democracy in Chile (2012) and the editor of The Twilight Saga: Exploring the Global Phenomenon (Scarecrow Press, 2013).
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Claudia Bucciferro
Part I: Utopian and Immersive Experiences
1 Mutopia: American Utopianism and the Mutant Superhero
Matt Yockey
2 The Immersive Marketing Campaign for X-Men: Days of Future Past
Nicolò Gallio
Part II: Agency and Authority
3 Superhuman Authority: Fascism and Bioethics in the X-Men Films
Evan Hayles Gledhill
4 Magneto’s Dilemma: The Technological Limitations of Mutant Transhumanism
Ron Von Burg and D. Stokes Piercy
5 PTXD: Gendered Narratives of Combat, Trauma, and the Civil-Military Divide
Christina M. Knopf and Christine M. Doran
Part III: Women and Power
6 Containing the X-Women: De-powering and De-queering Female Characters
Carolyn Cocca
7 Shape-Shifting Identity: Mystique’s Embodied Agency
Jason Zingsheim
8 The “Stolen” Superpowers of Marvel’s Rogue
Julie Davis and Robert Westerfelhaus
9 The Curious Case of “Dr.” Jean Grey, Mystique, and Mariko
Barbara Cook Overton, Athena du Pré, Loretta L. Pecchioni, and John H. Overton
Part IV: Masculinity and Race
10 Wolverine in Transition: Shifting Portrayals of Masculinity and Identity
Nathan Miczo
11 Techno-Orientalist Villains and White Masculinity in the Wolverine Movies
David C. Oh
12 Reframing Disabled Masculinity: Xavier as Marvel’s Supercrip
Jessica Benham
13 Mutating Minorities: White Racial Framing and Group Positioning
Jason Smith
Part V: Passing and Otherness
14 Passing While Homo Superior
Kat Overland
15 Mutancy, Otherness, and Empathy in the X-Men
Claudia Bucciferro
Epilogue
Jason Zingsheim and Claudia Bucciferro
Index
About the Editor and Contributors
A well-written, engaging exploration of the X-Men films and is sure to delight both scholar and fan alike.
— Studies in Popular Culture