
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,...

Throughout the history of the genre, the superhero has been characterised primarily by physical transformation and physical difference. Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation explores the transformation of the superhero body across multiple media forms...