Leonor Acosta publica "The Twenty-First-Century Avengers: Exploration of War, Globalization, and Identity Politics" en el último número de REDEN (Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos)

 

Leonor Acosta acaba de publicar el artículo titulado "The Twenty-First-Century Avengers: Exploration of War, Globalization, and Identity Politics", dentro de un monográfico de REDEN (Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos, 5 (1), pp. 94-108, dedicado a los (Super)hérores en la imaginación americana del siglo XXI. El número cuenta con un elenco de colaboraciones de prestigio internacional en el campo de los Estudios Culturales, con enfoques teóricos diferentes, y puede descargarse libremente en este enlace 

Se reproduce debajo el abstract del artículo:

The economic and cultural impact of the four films forming the saga of The Avengers from 2012 to 2019 stands for the impressive accumulation of superhero fiction in the twenty-first century, with a remarkable resituation of the topic of war conflict into the popular imagination quite affected by the traumatic beginning of the era in the New York scenario on 9/11. This article intends to analyze the different plot elements in The Avengers (2012), The Avengers. Age of Ultron (2015), The Avengers. Infinity War (2018), and The Avengers. Endgame (2019) to find clues to explain how the Marvel Cinematic Universe accomplishes a complex exploration of the nature of war, and how the films offer new ways of deconstructing simplistic Manichean polarization between good vs. evil. With this objective in mind, the study pays attention to how this deconstruction also needs to concentrate on the decomposition of stereotypes related to identity politics