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Avengers assemble! : critical perspectives on the Marvel cinematic universe /
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.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Wallflower Press,
[2018]
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- 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
- 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.