Avengers Assemble! : Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe /

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We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. In the first single-authored monograph on the topic of the Marvel ci...

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Otros Autores: McSweeney, Terence (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Columbia University Press, [2018]
Temas:
Comic strip characters in motion pictures.
Superhero films > History and criticism.
Superhero films-History and criticism.
PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / Direction & Production.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • 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

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