Fight The Good Fight: Queer Subtext in the Captain America Films

The story of Steven Grant Rogers and James Buchanan "Bucky" Barnes is one of intensity, love, friendship, and, ultimately, tragedy. Their story begins with tragedy, and tragedy is at its very core. What else would you call it when the man you sacrificed everything for dies in a war he didn't want to fight? When he comes back from the dead only to have forgotten you almost completely? When he tries to kill you, twice? When instead of returning to you, he chooses to retreat to something that had been forced on him for seventy years by his abusers? When you yourself travel backwards to an idealised past and leave him behind? This book is an analysis of the Captain America films and how they illustrate the love that Steve and Bucky share, as well as the love Steve shares with other characters.