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Author |
: Joseph Zornado |
Publisher |
: Springer Nature |
Total Pages |
: 219 |
Release |
: 2021-11-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9783030854584 |
ISBN-13 |
: 3030854582 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (84 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice by : Joseph Zornado
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’s The Boys as distinctly reflective fantasy narratives critical of the superhero fantasy phenomenon.
Author |
: Joseph Zornado |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 178 |
Release |
: 2024-07-26 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781040092972 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1040092977 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (72 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Disaster Film as Social Practice by : Joseph Zornado
Surveying disaster films from a Lacanian psychoanalytic perspective, this book explores the disaster film genre from its initial appearance in 1933 (The Grapes of Wrath, 1933) to its present-day form (Don’t Look Up!, 2021), laying bare the ideological unconscious at work within the genre. The Disaster Film as Social Practice examines environmental science, history, film and literature in its interdisciplinary analysis of the disaster film genre. It explores the interplay, and the dichotomy, of “restorative” and “reflective” disaster narratives. An analysis of cinema's role in symbolizing and managing collective anxiety around disaster and death narratives examines how disaster films, through their narrative structures and symbolic elements, contribute to the public's understanding and emotional processing of real-world threats, and how cinematic narratives shape and are shaped by public and private ideological discourses, reflecting deeper psychological and environmental truths. Finally, the book offers an overview of how the transformation of the disaster film genre over time tells a history through imagining the worst. Providing a nuanced understanding of the disaster film genre and its significance in contemporary culture and thought, this book will be of interest to scholars and students of film studies, cultural studies, media studies, and environmental studies.
Author |
: Sara Reilly |
Publisher |
: |
Total Pages |
: 136 |
Release |
: 2013 |
ISBN-10 |
: OCLC:958673816 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Superheroes as a Social Practice by : Sara Reilly
Author |
: Evdokia Stefanopoulou |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 241 |
Release |
: 2023-07-27 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781501380228 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1501380222 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (28 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood by : Evdokia Stefanopoulou
The Science Fiction Film in Contemporary Hollywood focuses on the American science fiction (SF) film during the period 2001-2020, in order to provide a theoretical mapping of the genre in the context of Conglomerate Hollywood. Using a social semiotics approach in a systematic corpus of films, the book argues that the SF film can be delineated by two semiotic squares -the first one centering on the genre's more-than-human ontologies (SF bodies), and the second one focusing on its imaginative worlds (SF worlds). Based on this theoretical framework, the book examines the genre in six cycles, which are placed in their historical context, and are analyzed in relation to cultural discourses, such as technological embodiment, race, animal-human relations, environmentalism, global capitalism, and the techno-scientific Empire. By considering these cycles -which include superhero films, creature films, space operas, among others-as expressions of the genre's basic oppositions, the book facilitates the comparison and juxtaposition of films that have rarely been discussed in tandem, offering a new perspective on the multiple articulations of the SF film in the new millennium.
Author |
: Terence McSweeney |
Publisher |
: Columbia University Press |
Total Pages |
: 223 |
Release |
: 2020-11-10 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9780231549790 |
ISBN-13 |
: 0231549792 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (90 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Contemporary Superhero Film by : Terence McSweeney
Audiences around the globe continue to flock to see the latest releases from Marvel and DC studios, making it clear that superhero films resonate with the largest global audience that Hollywood has ever reached. Yet despite dominating theater screens like never before, the superhero genre remains critically marginalized—ignored at best and more often actively maligned. Terence McSweeney examines this global phenomenon, providing 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. Unpacking the social, ideological, and cultural content of superhero films, he argues that the genre should be considered a barometer of contemporary social anxieties and a reflection of cultural values. McSweeney scrutinizes representations of gender, race, and sexuality as well as how the genre’s conventions relate to and comment on contemporary political debates. Beyond American contributions to the genre, the book also features extensive analysis of superhero films from all over the world, contrasting them with the dominant U.S. model. The book’s presentation of a range of case studies and critical debates is accessible and engaging for students, scholars, and enthusiasts at all levels.
Author |
: Lorna Piatti-Farnell |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 323 |
Release |
: 2021-11-01 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781793624604 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1793624607 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (04 Downloads) |
Synopsis The Superhero Multiverse by : Lorna Piatti-Farnell
The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations, The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly, it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrative—including the relationship between ‘superhero comics’ and ‘superhero films’, the comics roots of superhero media, matters of canon and hybridity, and issues of recycling and stereotyping in superhero films and media texts. Secondly, it considers how these intersecting textual and cultural preoccupations are intrinsic to the process of remaking and re-adapting superheroes, and brings attention to multiple ways of materializing these iconic figures in our contemporary context.
Author |
: Julian C. Chambliss |
Publisher |
: McFarland |
Total Pages |
: 263 |
Release |
: 2018-02-20 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781476632858 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1476632855 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (58 Downloads) |
Synopsis Assembling the Marvel Cinematic Universe by : Julian C. Chambliss
The Marvel Cinematic Universe--comprised of films, broadcast television and streaming series and digital shorts--has generated considerable fan engagement with its emphasis on socially relevant characters and plots. Beyond considerable box office achievements, the success of Marvel's movie studios has opened up dialogue on social, economic and political concerns that challenge established values and beliefs. This collection of new essays examines those controversial themes and the ways they represent, construct and distort American culture.
Author |
: Jorge González del Pozo |
Publisher |
: Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages |
: 243 |
Release |
: 2023-10-02 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781000968583 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1000968588 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (83 Downloads) |
Synopsis Netflix' Spain by : Jorge González del Pozo
This edited collection analyzes the tensions, contradictions, contributions, and new horizons generated and/or imposed by Netflix within Spain’s audiovisual culture. This book provides invaluable insight into how Netflix—first in its role as distributor and then as content creator—has changed the audiovisual landscape in Spain. It discusses how Netflix challenges the traditional method of categorizing film and television output by nationality while also examining how Spain is presented to other countries through the Netflix catalog and questioning what its chosen output—light comedies, mystery/thrillers, narco-fiction, and crime—means for Spain’s national brand. With chapters addressing themes such as reproducibility, pan-Europeanism after Brexit, gender representation, identity, and globalization, this book explores how—under the influence of Netflix—Spain is transitioning from an importer of audiovisual content to a center of export. This book will appeal to students and scholars of Film and Media Studies, Hispanic and Iberian Studies, and Spanish with a specific interest in Spanish film, television, media, and culture, as well as global media industries.
Author |
: Sharon Packer MD |
Publisher |
: Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages |
: 421 |
Release |
: 2009-12-14 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9798216151616 |
ISBN-13 |
: |
Rating |
: 4/5 (16 Downloads) |
Synopsis Superheroes and Superegos by : Sharon Packer MD
This comprehensive collection of essays written by a practicing psychiatrist shows that superheroes are more about superegos than about bodies and brawn, even though they contain subversive sexual subtexts that paved the path for major social shifts of the late 20th century. Superheroes have provided entertainment for generations, but there is much more to these fictional characters than what first meets the eye. Superheros and Superegos: Analyzing the Minds Behind the Masks begins its exploration in 1938 with the creation of Superman and continues to the present, with a nod to the forerunners of superhero stories in the Bible and Greek, Roman, Norse, and Hindu myth. The first book about superheroes written by a psychiatrist in over 50 years, it invokes biological psychiatry to discuss such concepts as "body dysmorphic disorder," as well as Jungian concepts of the shadow self that explain the appeal of the masked hero and the secret identity. Readers will discover that the earliest superheroes represent fantasies about stopping Hitler, while more sophisticated and socially-oriented publishers used superheroes to encourage American participation in World War II. The book also explores themes such as how the feminist movement and the dramatic shift in women's roles and rights were predicted by Wonder Woman and Sheena nearly 30 years before the dawn of the feminist era.
Author |
: James N. Gilmore |
Publisher |
: Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages |
: 266 |
Release |
: 2014-03-06 |
ISBN-10 |
: 9781442232129 |
ISBN-13 |
: 1442232129 |
Rating |
: 4/5 (29 Downloads) |
Synopsis Superhero Synergies by : James N. Gilmore
In the age of digital media, superheroes are no longer confined to comic books and graphic novels. Their stories are now featured in films, video games, digital comics, television programs, and more. In a single year alone, films featuring Batman, Spider-Man, and the Avengers have appeared on the big screen. Popular media no longer exists in isolation, but converges into complex multidimensional entities. As a result, traditional ideas about the relationship between varying media have come under striking revision. Although this convergence is apparent in many genres, perhaps nowhere is it more persistent, more creative, or more varied than in the superhero genre. Superhero Synergies: Comic Book Characters Go Digital explores this developing relationship between superheroes and various forms of media, examining how the superhero genre, which was once limited primarily to a single medium, has been developed into so many more. Essays in this volume engage with several of the most iconic heroes—including Batman, Hulk, and Iron Man—through a variety of academic disciplines such as industry studies, gender studies, and aesthetic analysis to develop an expansive view of the genre’s potency. The contributors to this volume engage cinema, comics, video games, and even live stage shows to instill readers with new ways of looking at, thinking about, and experiencing some of contemporary media’s most popular texts. This unique approach to the examination of digital media and superhero studies provides new and valuable readings of well-known texts and practices. Intended for both academics and fans of the superhero genre, this anthology introduces the innovative and growing synergy between traditional comic books and digital media.