“Why is your body a different shape?” fatness and masculinity in the superhero film

IF 0.8 Q3 SOCIAL SCIENCES, INTERDISCIPLINARY Fat Studies-An Interdisciplinary Journal of Body Weight and Society Pub Date : 2023-01-31 DOI:10.1080/21604851.2023.2170551
Barbara Plotz
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ABSTRACT In recent decades, American superhero films, and with them often very traditional constructs of masculinity, have become omnipresent in cinemas worldwide. This article examines a specific type of male representation, male fatness, in two examples of the genre, Spiderman: Into the Spider-verse (2018) and Avengers: Endgame (2019). The author argues that in both films the fat male character is depicted as demasculinized, thereby standing in a tradition of male fatness stereotyped as outside of normative masculinity. In the superhero genre the body plays a particularly relevant role in signifying a hegemonic masculinity, which is highlighted by the way the two films position the characters’ fatness, or also behaviors associated with fatness, in contrast to the expectations of superhero masculinity.
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