Description
Book Synopsis Even as the major superhero film franchises appear to be exhausting their runs The Umbrella Academy demonstrates that the superhero genre is still extremely effective at creating role models with lasting psychological resonance and allegories with extraordinary emotional impact. These essays give a voice to the misunderstood family members of The Umbrella Academy in the comic book series and its highly popular Netflix adaptation. They explore different forces like individualism, identity, family, and feminism. One of the most striking features that unites these concepts is the linkage between violence with voice, as well as violence''s aestheticized depiction.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Lisann Anders
- Part 1: Forces of Identity
- Gothic Academy: Horror and Crookedness in a Haunted Household
- Kathleen Shaughnessy
- Liminal Spaces: Being Alone in a House That Isn't Home
- Miranda Johnsen
- Superheroes, Transnational Adoption, and Hegelian Estrangement
- Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
- Part 2: Forces of Otherness
Artifice and the Superheroes of the 21st Century: Post-Cinematic Reflections on Constructedness
- Morgane A. Ghilardi
- Extraordinary Bodies and the Language of Pain: Disability in Apocalypse Suite and Dallas
- Dana Fore
- Part 3: Forces of Violence
- Domestic Abuse: Normative Violence and Child-Superheroes
- Alokparna Sen
- Crystal Moments: Sites of Music and Violence
- Lisann Anders
- Dissonance: Striking a Chord Through the Silencing of Women's Voices
- J.E. Hornsby
- About the Contributors
- Index
