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Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 12.1 is out now! Special Issue

Intellect is pleased to announce that Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 12.1 is out now!

Special Issue: ‘Superheroes’

This Special Issue re-examines the part played by superheroes in contemporary narratives within popular culture. In so doing, it explores how these iconic figures reflect identities and meaning in social, cultural, political and historical contexts.

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https://www.intellectbooks.com/the-australasian-journal-of-popular-culture

Aims & Scope

The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture is a double-blind peer-reviewed journal devoted to the scholarly understanding of everyday cultures. It is concerned with the study of the social and cultural meanings that are produced and circulated through everyday media and practices as products of consumption. It explores popular narratives and iconographies as intellectual objects of inquiry, and as integral components of the dynamic forces that shape societies and identities. The journal publishes articles that focus on Australasian examples, as well as broader critical and comparative topics viewed through a global lens.

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Issue 12.1

Editorial

Re-examining superhero politics in popular culture

CARL WILSON AND LORNA PIATTI-FARNELL

Articles

‘You’re a refugee, are you not?’ ‘Extraordinary bodies’, monstrous outsiders and US refugee policies in superhero comics

TINA POWELL

Superheroes and Nazis: Re-examining the legacy of the Second World War in Eric Kripke’s The Boys

ABIGAIL WHITTALL

Storying species extinction in Avengers: Infinity War and Avengers: Endgame

SOPHIE DUNGAN