Mapping Smallville : critical essays on the series and its characters
Cory Barker (Editor), Chris Ryan (Editor), Myc Wiatrowski (Editor)
"The essays are presented in sections covering broad categories: Clark's metamorphosis to Superman and his parents and home; the role of noteworthy female characters; the representations of the Other, explorations of identity, and the ways in which characters speak to Clark's own struggles; and audience reception of the series and its position within the Superman narrative universe"-- Provided by publisher
Print Book, English, 2014
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, Jefferson, North Carolina, 2014
viii, 213 pages ; 23 cm
9780786494644, 9781476617510, 0786494646, 1476617511
880929653
Introduction / Cory Barker, Chris Ryan and Myc Wiatrowski
Part One: Smallville's Decade-Long Mythical Journey
Mythicizing Clark Kent: Archetypes and Mythic Structures of Smallville / Daniel P. Compora
The Smallville Destiny: The Superhero's Shaping by His Archetypal Fathers / James F. Iaccino
"Always Hold on to Smallville": Domesticity and the Male Hero / Bridget Kies
Part Two: Powerful Women
Sidekicks or Heroines? The Feminist Successes and Failures of Smallville's Leading Ladies / Valerie Estelle Frankel
Another Way: Tess Mercer as Ethical Hero / Peter Melville
Girl Friday Power: Chloe Sullivan and the Hacker Sidekicks of Twenty-First Century Teen Television / Tara K. Parmiter
Part Three: Bodies, Identities and Politics
Rummaging Through the Closet (Un)Masking the Signified Other in Smallville's First Four Seasons / Jonathan A. Austad
Kryptonian Encounters: Model Immigration and Superman's Impossible Dream / Roger Almendarez
Bodies as Unreliable Signifiers: The Inconsistency of Smallville's Character Construction / Daniel Kulle
Part Four: Reception
Finding Clark Kent: Sites of Nostalgia and Affect / Gregory Bray and John Patrick Bray
"Chlark" Versus "Clois": Shippers, Anti-Fans and Anti-Fan Fans / Cory Barker