The Hero and Hero-Making Across Genres (Hardcover)

This book critically examines how a Hero is made, sustained, and even deformed, in contemporary cultures. It brings together diverse ideas from philosophy, mythology, religion, literature, cinema, and social media to explore how heroes are constructed across genres, mediums, and traditions. The essays in this volume present fresh perspectives for readers to conceptualize the myriad possibilities the term 'Hero' brings with itself. They examine the making and unmaking of the heroes across literary, visual and social cultures -in religious spaces and in classical texts; in folk tales and fairy tales; in literature, as seen in Heinrich Boell's Und Sagte Kein Einziges Wort, Thomas Brussig's Heroes like Us, and in movies, like Christopher Nolan's Interstellar, Michel Gondry's Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind and in the short film like Dean Potter's When Dogs Fly. The volume also features nuanced takes on intersectional feminist representations in hero movies; masculinity in sports biopics; taking everyday heroes from the real to the reel, among others key themes. A stimulating work that explores the mechanisms that 'manufacture' heroes, this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of English literature, postcolonial studies, cultural studies, film studies, media studies, literary and critical theory, arts and aesthetics, political sociology and political philosophy.

General

Imprint:	Routledge India
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	September 2021
First published:	2022
Editors:	Amar Singh • Shipra Tholia • Pravin K. Patel
Dimensions:	234 x 156mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	250
ISBN-13:	978-0-367-36328-4
Categories:	Books > Humanities > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary theory Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Science fiction Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Communication studies > Media studies Books > Earth & environment > Geography > Regional geography Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > From 1900 Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Novels, other prose & writers > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Area / regional studies > General Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Interdisciplinary studies > Cultural studies > General Promotions
LSN:	0-367-36328-3
Barcode:	9780367363284

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