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 E-BOOK      
Title Heroism as a global phenomenon in contemporary culture / edited by Barbara Korte, Simon Wendt and Nicole Falkenhayner.
OCLC EBC5741709
ISBN 9780367206659
9780429553370 (e-book)
9780429262784 (e-book)
Publisher New York ; London : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2019.
Description 1 online resource (258 pages).
LC Subject heading/s Heroes in mass media.
Heroes in popular culture.
Heroes in motion pictures.
Courage in mass media.
Courage in popular culture.
Courage in motion pictures.
Other
Genre heading/s
Electronic books
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 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 Spath -- 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.
Source of Description Description based on print version record.
NOTE Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2018. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
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