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🏛 Routledge 📅 2018 📖 194 pages 🌐 English 📔 Hardcover ISBN: 9781138389892

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This volume attends to the physicality of superheroes: it examines how ideologies of race, gender and disability are signified or destabilized in the physicality of the superhero and presents an exploration of superheroes across multiple media forms including comics, film, television, literature and the graphic novel.

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