TY - BOOK AU - Korte,Barbara AU - Wendt,Simon AU - Falkenhayner,Nicole TI - Heroism as a global phenomenon in contemporary culture T2 - Routledge studies in cultural history AV - P96.H46 .H476 2019 U1 - 302.2308 23 PY - 2019/// CY - New York, London PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group KW - Heroes in mass media KW - Heroes in popular culture KW - Heroes in motion pictures KW - Courage in mass media KW - Courage in popular culture KW - Courage in motion pictures KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Introduction : studying heroism from a global perspective / Barbara Korte and Simon Wendt -- "Like a cinema when the last of the audience has gone and only the staff remain" : Biggles and (post-)imperial heroism / Michael Goodrum -- Y'a bon? : popularizing the tirailleurs as heroes of (anti-)colonialism / Konstanze N'Guessan and Mareike Spath -- Princess of a different kingdom : cultural imperialism, female heroism, and the global performance of Walt Disney's Mulan and Moana / Sotirios Mouzakis -- One hero fits all? : cultural translations in Doctor Strange (2016) as "global hero" movie / Nicole Falkenhayner and Maria-Xenia Hardt -- Zashchitniki (Guardians) : a failed Russian-Soviet answer to Superman and Batman / Dietmar Neutatz -- "This beast in the shape of a man" : right-wing populism, white masculinity, and the transnational heroization of Donald Trump / Michael Butter -- Axe and helmet : the widening range of New York firefighters as (super-)heroes / Wolfgang Hochbruck -- Unlikely tragic (anti-)heroes : gangsters translated into Hindi films / Sugata Nandi -- Heroism and the pleasure and pain of mistranslation : the case of the act of killing / Ariel Heryanto -- Shaolin martial arts heroes in industrial Hong Kong : between colonialism, postcolonialism and globalism / Ricardo K. S. Mak -- Interhuman. interspecies. global : heroism in Wes Anderson's Isle of dogs (2018) / Ulrike Zimmermann -- Global heroism as a discursive tradition : a critical response / Ken Chitwood UR - http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/daystar-ebooks/detail.action?docID=5741709 ER -