Summary Of Masque Ulinities

In this review I have discussed Friedrich Weltzien’s article ‘Masque-ulinities: Changing Dress as a Display of Masculinity in the Superhero Genre’ (2005). Weltzien’s article talks about defining masculinity as a masquerade and he use superhero to represent the masculinity through different costumes. He relate superheroes to the role models in ancient time and in the second half of the twentieth century. He argues that masculinity can be construct in changing costume, and he said that the ancient and renaissance models of warrior are sort of masquerade. After summarizing Weltzien’s main points, I shall be agree with the article that superheroes are not exist by it self, it comes from role models that has a big influence in the history, and changing costume means changing identity and this change is a masquerade. Changing in clothes
Many of the superhero use mask as an embellishment. “In this, the mask represents the general possibility of re-creating a person by a change of dress” (Weltzien 2005, p.230). We can say that mask is representing the identity of the heroes because it’s a part of his costume and it is built up the image of the heroes. Then He also mentions “superhero is a construction of a certain role model of manliness” (Weltzien 2005, p.231). I strongly agree with that because what I see is that they all have a certain personalities that similar to a certain strong character in the last period. I believe that there’s nothing new in this life, it’s just go round and round and we just add embellishment to make it different. For example is superman, he also called “man of steel” and in Russian word it means “stalin”, which refer to Joseph Djugashvili. He was one of the most powerful murderous dictators in history and