The Classical Reception and Impact of Wonder Woman in Comics and Film

Herausgeber: Potter, Amanda; Skibinski, Connie; Lindner, Martin; Swain, Natalie; Carlà-Uhink, Filippo

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Produktbeschreibung

Provides a wide range of scholarly approaches to the superhero character of Wonder Woman across comic books and film.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. Mai 2026
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781350439368
• ISBN-10: 1350439363
• Artikelnr.: 72668478

Autorenporträt

Amanda Potter is a Visiting Fellow in Classics at the University of Liverpool, UK. She co-edited Ancient Epic in Film and Television (2021) and has published widely on classics in film and television. Natalie J. Swain is an Instructor in Classics at the University of Winnipeg, Canada. She has published on Latin literature and the reception of the ancient Mediterranean world in comics. Connie Skibinski is a doctorate candidate in Classics at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her primary research interest is Greco-Roman mythology and the adaptation of ancient mythology from the Medieval period to the contemporary era.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgements
Preface: What Wonder Woman Means to Us
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Introduction, Amanda Potter (Open University, UK), Connie Skibinski
(University of Newcastle, Australia), and Natalie J. Swain (University of
Winnipeg, Canada)
Section I: Wonder Woman Comics through the Ages
1. The Two Wonder Women: Gender Subversion and Audience in Marston/Peter
Comics and Newspaper Strips Natalie Beglin (Indiana University, USA)
2. George Perez and the Reinvention of Wonder Woman, Tony Keen (University
of Notre Dame, UK)
3. Wonder Girl (Cassandra Sandsmark) and the Teen Titans C. W. Marshall
(University of British Columbia, Canada)
4. Compelling Love: Tracing Wonder Woman's Lasso of Truth Theresa Ashford
(University of the Sunshine Coast, Australia), and Amanda Potter (Open
University, UK)
Section II: Gods, Faeries and Amazons
5. "This is OUR Story": Wonder Woman Historia, History, and the Evolving
Nature of the Amazons Jeremy Brett (Texas A&M University, USA) and Jessica
Tucker (University of North Texas, USA)
6. Amazons and Ares: Battle Lines Through Time Anneka Rene (University of
Auckland, New Zealand)
7. Animating Wonder Woman: Mythological Resonances in Wonder Woman (2009)
Krishni Burns (University of Illinois, USA)
8. Themyscira in the Otherworld Translation Madelaine Sacco (University of
Newcastle, Australia)
9. What is the Godkiller? Artificiality, Intention, and Purpose in the
Origins and Development of Diana Prince, Tannika Koosmen (University of
Newcastle, Australia)
Section III: Wonder Woman and the Politics of Feminism
10. The United Nations Decade for (Wonder) Women: Wonder Woman, the U.N.,
and Women's Liberation, Christina M. Knopf (SUNY Cortland, USA)
12. Blurring the Boundaries: Gald Gadot, Wonder Woman, Peace and Violence
Lisa Maurice (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)
13. The New Wonder Woman and the Saviour of Western Civilization Anise
Strong (Western Michigan University, USA)
13. Themysciran Racial Framing & Anti-Racism in DC's 'Trial of the Amazons'
Natalie J. Swain (University of Winnipeg, Canada)
Afterword Joan Ormrod (Independent Scholar)
Notes
Bibliography
Index