Raiding the Superhero Wardrobe: A Review of The Superhero Costume – Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction
GROPPEL-WEGENER, Alke (2018) Raiding the Superhero Wardrobe: A Review of The Superhero Costume – Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction. The Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 8 (1). ISSN 2048-0792
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The Superhero Costume – Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction, B. Brownie and D. Graydon, Bloomsbury Academic, 192 pages, 2016, 15 b/w images, ISBN: 978-1472595904
This review provides a costume designer’s reading of The Superhero Costume – Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction by Barbara Brownie and Danny Graydon (Bloomsbury, 2016). This book explores the superhero costume within comics, films and its translation into real life, and shows how difficult it is to stitch the line between symbolism and practicality, spectacle and realism, and ultimately between fiction and fact. While there remains some unevenness in how the gender of superheroes makes a difference to the costume and there is a lack of a useful conclusion as far as academic books go, this book discusses a lot of issues that could (and should) inform the designs within a superhero’s wardrobe.
Item Type: | Article |
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Faculty: | School of Computing and Digital Technologies > Games and Visual Effects |
Depositing User: | Alke GROPPEL-WEGENER |
Date Deposited: | 23 Jan 2018 14:11 |
Last Modified: | 24 Feb 2023 13:49 |
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URI: | https://eprints.staffs.ac.uk/id/eprint/3984 |
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