McSweeney The Contemporary Superhero Film

Projections of Power and Identity
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-0-231-54979-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch

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Terence McSweeney provides a concise and up-to-date overview of the superhero genre. He lays out its narrative codes and conventions, exploring why it appeals to diverse audiences and what it has to say about the world in the first two decades of the twenty-first century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McSweeney, Terence

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments
Introduction: Cultural Phenomenon or Cultural Catastrophe?
1 The Codes and Conventions of the Contemporary Superhero Film
2 The Mythologies of the Contemporary Superhero Film
3 Gender and Sexuality in the Contemporary Superhero Film
4 Ethnicity in the Contemporary Superhero Film
5 The Global Contemporary Superhero Film
Conclusion: “Is it me or is it getting crazier out there?”
The Future of the Contemporary Superhero Film and the Genre’s “Impossible Solutions for Insoluble Problems”
Filmography
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

McSweeney Terence:
Terence McSweeney is senior lecturer in Media Arts and Technology at Southampton Solent University. He is the author of The War on Terror and American Film: 9/11 Frames per Second' (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), Beyond the Frame: The Films and Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky (Aporetic Press, 2015) and the co-editor of Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film (Wallflower, 2012).Terence McSweeney is senior lecturer in film and television studies at Solent University. His books include Avengers Assemble! Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Wallflower, 2018) and The War on Terror and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second (2014).