Battle Scars

Wonder Woman, Aesthetic Geopolitics and Disfigurement in Hollywood Film

Bibliographic Data

ID3948851
AuthorsPhilip Kirby (0000-0001-9254-8732, University of Oxford, corresponding author)
Year2020
Volume25
Issue4
Pages916-936
Publication date2020-08-07
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueGeopolitics (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1465-0045 • E-ISSN: 1557-3028
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/14650045.2018.1510389
OpenAlexW2896461527
LanguageEN
Citations received7
References cited61

Wonder Woman (2017) has been one of the most lucrative entries in the recent superhero film canon. With a female lead and director, it has also proven a rich text for feminist analysis. Here, the film’s engagement with questions of gender, aesthetic judgment and disability is explored through the lens of feminist geopolitics, and connected to the alignment between immorality and disfigurement in Hollywood more broadly. It is suggested that aesthetic value is used in the film as a key organizing principle for spatial and geopolitical claims. Through this analysis, the paper suggests the potential for further studies of disability, including disfigurement, in popular geopolitics

Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Battle · Disfigurement · Epistemology · Geopolitics · Hollywood · Literature · Political science · Politics · Sensibility · Sociology · Sublime · Wonder · Adventure Sports and Sensation Seeking · Disability Rights and Representation · Gender, Security, and Conflict · History · Law · Philosophy

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