Lucia Vitzthum 
Gender Roles in Superhero Movies [PDF ebook] 

Seminar paper from the year 2015 in the subject Didactics for the subject English – Applied Geography, grade: 1, 0, University of Duisburg-Essen, language: English, abstract: Superhero movies have been the biggest money-making machine in recent years. Spiderman, Superman, Batman, Iron man all have been successful movies and all protagonists have been male. This work aims to examine the role of women in superhero movies and how they have changed. This work also differentiates between women as the main character and women in superhero teams like ‘The Avengers’.