Vestnik VGIK I Journal of Film Arts and Film StudiesVestnik VGIK I Journal of Film Arts and Film Studies2074-08322713-2471Eco-vector1483710.17816/VGIK62110-119Research ArticleSuperhero Cinema Comics: Gender TranspositionTsyrkunNina Aleksandrovna<p>PhD in Philosophy, senior researcher, head of Modern Screen Art Department, Institute of Film Art</p>editor@vestnik-vgik.comVGIK150620146211011901072019Copyright © 2014, Tsyrkun N.A.2014<p>The article treats symbolic exchange of gender roles in modern American cinema comics. The author comes to the conclusion that the narrative functions force female characters to act under a male algorithm while their visual representation brings to a classic "patriarchal" discourse, which testifies to superhero cinema comics' conservatism, characteristic of its genre basis.</p>cinema comicsgenderrepressive hierarchynarrativevisual representationкинокомиксгендеррепрессивная иерархичностьнарративвизуальная репрезентация[Augustdt, Jordan; Jacob, Michael; Laudwehr, Arne; Meichtry, Andrew & Rudn, Dan. Look, up in the Sky! It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane, It’s a.. Bikini? Depiction of Gender in American Superhero Comic Books, 1960-2010. - Portland State University, March 14, 2011. - Р 35.][Fisher, Lucy. Shot / Countershot / Film Tradition and Womens Cinema. - Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989. - 348 p.][Heath, Stephen. Difference // Screen, 1978. - Vol. 19, # 3, pp. 51-112.][Kane, Bob. Batman and Me. Foestifille, California: Eclipse Books, 1989. - 155 p.][Mulvey, Laura. Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema» // Screen, vol. 16, # 3, autumn, 1975. - Р. 6-18.][Wood, Robert. Hollywood from Vietnam to Reagan. New York: Columbia University Press, 1985. - 328 p.]