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ISBN
0231186258
EAN
9780231186254
Release Title
Avengers Assemble! – Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinem...
Artist
Mcsweeney, Terence
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Book Title
Avengers Assemble! – Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinem...
Subject Area
Performing Arts
Publication Name
Avengers Assemble! : Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Item Length
0.9 in
Publisher
Wall Flower Jeans Press
Subject
Film / Genres / Action & Adventure, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Item Height
0.1 in
Author
Terence Mcsweeney
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz
Number of Pages
310 Pages

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Avengers Assemble! explores the cinematic and televisual branches of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from a diverse range of critical perspectives. Beginning with Iron Man , it considers them as both embodiments of the changing blockbuster film and affective cultural artifacts that are immersed in the turbulent political climate of their era.

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Publisher
Wall Flower Jeans Press
ISBN-10
0231186258
ISBN-13
9780231186254
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Product Key Features

Author
Terence Mcsweeney
Publication Name
Avengers Assemble! : Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe
Format
Trade Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Film / Genres / Action & Adventure, Film / Direction & Production, Film / History & Criticism
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Performing Arts
Number of Pages
310 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
0.9 in
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Item Weight
17.5 Oz

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Lc Classification Number
Pn1995.9.S76
Reviews
The book engages with superhero films on a very deep level, making it not only informative but an extremely pleasurable read as well., This is a timely and entertaining volume that will prove very useful in the development of genre courses in the next few years as the superhero genre finds its place in taught modules across film and media programmes. The work is scholarly and well referenced in ways that open it to further reading and research, but accessible to undergraduate readers. The author takes an epistemically specific approach that is not inappropriate given the avowed focus on the MCU specifically, rather than the superhero genre on the whole or its historical roots. As such, the range of contemporary readings on terrorism, conflict, and the power structures of the twenty first century (mainly American) is again both timely and informative. Intellectually, the breaking of the MCU into its industrially determined 'phases' again focuses the chronology but also opens new arenas of interrogation. The 'phase two' section demonstrates the degree to which the frames of reference change between 2008 and 2013, freeing the franchise (and scholarly debate) from some of the immediate trauma narrative tropes of the first phase, and allowing the discussion to delve into some of the more liminal spaces of the MCU, such as in Thor: The Dark World and Guardians of the Galaxy on gender and fantasy. The final section on the recent television incarnations of the franchise is useful without delving too deeply into the political economy of transmedia in the Netflix age (which is another topic entirely), A magnificent book. As insightful and comprehensive as it is engaging and timely, this full-length examination of the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a rewarding read for passionate superhero fans as well as researchers in the fields of film studies, political science, and cultural studies.
Table of Content
Acknowledgements Prologue: The Heroes We Need Right Now?: Explaining 'The Age of the Superhero' Introduction: Superheroes in the New Millennium and 'The Example of America' PHASE ONE 1. 'That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it ... and it's worked out pretty well so far': The Stark Doctrine in Iron Man and Iron Man 2 2. Allegorical Narratives of Gods and Monsters: Thor and The Incredible Hulk 3. State Fantasy and the Superhero: (Mis)Remembering World War II in Captain America: The First Avenger 4. 'Seeing ... still working on believing!': The Ethics and Aesthetics of Destruction in The Avengers PHASE TWO 5 . 'Nothing's been the same since New York': Ideological Continuity and Change in Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World 6. 'The world has changed and none of us can go back': The Illusory Moral Ambiguities of the Post-9/11 Superhero in Captain America: The Winter Soldier 7. Blurring the Boundaries of Genre and Gender in Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man 8. 'Isn't that why we fight? So we can end the fight and go home?': The Enduring American Monomyth in Avengers: Age of Ultron THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE ON TELEVISION 9 . 'What does S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for?': The MCU on the Small Screen in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel's Agent Carter 10. The Necessary Vigilantism of the Defenders: Daredevil , Jessica Jones , Luke Cage and Iron Fist Conclusion: 'Whose side are you on?': Superheroes Through the Prism of the 'War on Terror' in Captain America: Civil War Epilogue: The Superhero as Transnational Icon Filmography Bibliography Index
Copyright Date
2018
Target Audience
Scholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal
791.43652
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes

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