Heroism as a global phenomenon in contemporary culture
Heroes and heroic discourse have gained new visibility in the twenty-first century. This is noted in recent research on the heroic, but it has been largely ignored that heroism is increasingly a global phenomenon both in terms of production and consumption. This edited collection aims to bridge this...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge
2019.
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| Edición: | 1st ed |
| Colección: | Routledge studies in cultural history.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009781217006719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : studying heroism from a global perspective / Barbara Korte and Simon Wendt
- "Like a cinema when the last of the audience has gone and only the staff remain" : Biggles and (post-)imperial heroism / Michael Goodrum
- Y'a bon? : popularizing the tirailleurs as heroes of (anti-)colonialism / Konstanze N'Guessan and Mareike Späth
- Princess of a different kingdom : cultural imperialism, female heroism, and the global performance of Walt Disney's Mulan and Moana / Sotirios Mouzakis
- One hero fits all? : cultural translations in Doctor Strange (2016) as "global hero" movie / Nicole Falkenhayner and Maria-Xenia Hardt
- Zashchitniki (Guardians) : a failed Russian-Soviet answer to Superman and Batman / Dietmar Neutatz
- "This beast in the shape of a man" : right-wing populism, white masculinity, and the transnational heroization of Donald Trump / Michael Butter
- Axe and helmet : the widening range of New York firefighters as (super-)heroes / Wolfgang Hochbruck
- Unlikely tragic (anti-)heroes : gangsters translated into Hindi films / Sugata Nandi
- Heroism and the pleasure and pain of mistranslation : the case of the act of killing / Ariel Heryanto
- Shaolin martial arts heroes in industrial Hong Kong : between colonialism, postcolonialism and globalism / Ricardo K. S. Mak
- Interhuman. interspecies. global : heroism in Wes Anderson's Isle of dogs (2018) / Ulrike Zimmermann
- Global heroism as a discursive tradition : a critical response / Ken Chitwood.
