Beyond the Red Room: Cold War II, Genre and Feminism in Marvel Studios’ Black Widow

2024/12/06 by Miriam Kent · 1 voice
Arts and Humanities · Social Sciences · #Comics and Graphic Narratives #Gender, Feminism, and Media #Media, Gender, and Advertising

paper · pdf · doi:10.1080/10509208.2024.2428870

openalex publication_date 2024/12/06 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/13

Abstract

This article examines the complexities of representing female agency and sisterhood in Black Widow (Cate Shortland, 2021), the first (and, currently, only) solo film featuring the eponymous spy-tur...

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• Forgot to post in the excitement of last year finally ending, but happy to announce my article on Black Widow, gender and genre is our now, open access: doi.org/10.1080/1050... [bsky, 3 points, 0 comments]

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