The feminine representations of the character Iron Heart
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.4013/fem.2017.193.09Abstract
This article aims at presenting a reflection about the feminine representations of the character Iron Heart, from the comic book publisher Marvel Comics. For this purpose, the character’s advertising poster and the variant cover of the second edition of the graphic novel were selected and analyzed under the theoretical perspective of the Grammar of Visual Design (GVD) and of the social representations. This article tries to make an analysis of the construction and reconstruction of the character in the face of the audience’s intervention, which transits between a standardization of feminine aesthetic, followed by hypersexualization and culminates in the infantilization of the character, who is an adolescent.
Keywords: gender, comic book, social representations.
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