Name: Peacemaker: Satirizing the American Machismo (en Inglés)
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Author: Carr, Bryan J.

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Peacemaker: Satirizing the American Machismo (en Inglés)

Formato

Libro Físico

Editorial

University Press of Mississippi

Autor

Carr, Bryan J.

Colección

Beyond the Comics Pantheon

Año

2026

Idioma

Inglés

N° páginas

112

Encuadernación

Tapa Dura

Dimensiones

21.6x14 cm

ISBN13

9781496864277

Peacemaker: Satirizing the American Machismo (en Inglés)

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Exploring how a once-obscure Charlton Comics character evolved into a complex, transmedia figure thanks to filmmaker James Gunn, Peacemaker: Satirizing the American Machismo delivers a sharp, accessible critique of toxic masculinity in American culture. Across five chapters, this book traces Peacemaker's transformation from a one-note Cold War vigilante into a conflicted, satirical symbol of modern manhood. Beginning with the character's origins under creators Joe Gill and Pat Boyette and his later reinvention at DC Comics, it offers both a publication history and an in-universe biography to help readers follow Peacemaker's many forms across comics, television, and film. At its core, the study connects Peacemaker to larger cultural forces: violence, nationalism, gender politics, and the "manosphere." Drawing on comics scholarship, media theory, interviews with creators, and real-world political discourse, it shows how Peacemaker both embodies and subverts the ideals of hypermasculinity. Blending pop-culture analysis with academic insight, this volume argues that Peacemaker has become an unlikely site of resistance, capable of grappling with the toxic scripts he's been handed and searching, sometimes awkwardly, for a different way to be a man.