Fetishizing Captain America’s sidearm: iconography, exceptionality, and the politics of representing guns

In 2007, Captain America, or Cap to his peers, died outside the courthouse where he would answer for leading a band of superheroes against the government’s Superhuman Registration Act in a plot line Fox and Friends took issue with, condemning Marvel Comics for killing Cap “while we’re at war,” refer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Posada, T. (Author)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2019
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