Slides for session 5

1. Comics and superheroes. A
whitewashing patriarchal
imperialist machinery, or a
place to subvert common
topics?

2. Guiding Questions
• What kind of symbolic representations of gender
and race do Superheroes reproduce? Do you think
they differ from movies to comics?
• How these symbolic representations are entangled
within globalisation, glocalisation and
grobarisation?
• Do you think there are some ways to subvert these
symbolic representations?
• What is the Global South response to American
superheroes?

3. Additional Instructions
• You need to watch at least one
superhero movie this weekend. Take
your pick and choose one you may
like.
• Alternatively, you can read a comic
book.

4. Key Materials
• Audio Visuals
• Rowan Ellis (2015) Sexism in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe (Discussion).
• Rowan Ellis (2015) Bechdel Test vs Mako Mori Test
• Readings
• Bateman, D. (2015). The avengers. Science Fiction Film
and Television, 8(2), 285-289.
• Korte, B., Wendt, S., & Falkenhayner, N. (2019).
Introduction. in Heroism As a Global Phenomenon in
Contemporary Culture. Milton, UNITED KINGDOM:
Routledge.

5. Complementary material
• Rowan Ellis (2019) Mainstream: The Future of Queer
Cinema?
• Rowan Ellis (2015) Marvel's Jessica Jones: Consent &
Toxic Masculinity.
• Korte, B., Wendt, S., & Falkenhayner, N. (2019).
Conclusion. in Heroism As a Global Phenomenon in
Contemporary Culture. Milton, UNITED KINGDOM:
Routledge.
• Matusitz, J., & Palermo, L. (2014). The disneyfication of
the world: A grobalisation perspective. Journal of
Organisational Transformation and Social Change, 11(2),
91–107.
• Manning, Jimmie. "Avengendering (Winner of the 2014
OSCLG Creative Expression Award)." Women and
Language 37.2 (2014): 98. Web.