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1. Who Wields the Shield: Captain America and Transformative Fandom by DrOlShakes for copperbadge, sanura, idiopathicsmile

   Fandoms: Captain America (Movies), Captain America - All Media Types, Captain America (Comics)  

   • Not Rated
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   • Gen, Other
   • Complete Work

   01 Jun 2016

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   • James "Bucky" Barnes/Steve Rogers
   • Steve Rogers/Tony Stark
   • Steve Rogers
   • Captain America - Character
   • academic essay
   • Meta
   • the relationships are mostly in relation to the source material
   • but this is really an essay examining the contrast in the Captain America vs Steve Rogers identity
   • as analyzed through transformative fandom
   • Filk

   Summary

   This is a copy of an essay I wrote for my "Music and Literature" course. It examines six songs related to Captain America, beginning with the infamous Star Spangled Man with a Plan" and then fan-produced filk music, and how transformative fandom has influenced the Captain America and Steve Rogers identities.

   "The importance of the individual Steve Rogers becomes relegated to the side when considering the power of the Captain America mythos yet at the same time, it is impossible to have Captain America without the individual. Taking both figures into consideration, transformative fandom has appropriated both the individual and the mythos into political statements offering subversive readings of a hegemonic cultural production."

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