Carmel Reilly; Sheryl Webster; Jill McDougall; Gary Northfield; Simone Lia; Sarah McIntyre; Trevor Baxendale; Mic Morgan Pearson Education Limited (2013) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Jill McDougall; Sheryl Webster; Carmel Reilly; Gary Northfield; Simone Lia; Sarah McIntyre; Trevor Baxendale; Mic Morgan Pearson Education Limited (2013) Pehmeäkantinen kirja
Palgrave Macmillan Sivumäärä: 215 sivua Asu: Kovakantinen kirja Julkaisuvuosi: 2021, 07.11.2021 (lisätietoa) Kieli: Englanti
This book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social practice. The study’s critical context brings together psychoanalysis and restorative and reflective nostalgia as a way of understanding the ideological function of superhero fantasy. It explores the origins of cinematic superhero fantasy from antecedents in myth and religion, to twentieth-century comic book, to the cinematic breakthrough with Superman (1978). The authors then focus on Spider-Man as reflective response to Superman’s restorative nostalgia, and read MCU’s overarching narrative from Iron Man to End Game in terms of the concurrent social, political, and environmental conditions as a world in crisis. Zornado and Reilly take up Wonder Woman and Black Panther as self-conscious attempts to reflect on gender and race in restorative superhero fantasy, and explore Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy as a meditation on the need for authoritarian fascism. The book concludes with Logan, Wonder Woman 1984, and Amazon Prime’sThe Boys as distinctly reflective fantasy narratives critical of the superhero fantasy phenomenon.
