bokomslag The Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice
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The Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice

Joseph Zornado Sara Reilly

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  • 215 sidor
  • 2021
This book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social practice. The studys 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 Supermans restorative nostalgia, and read MCUs 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 Nolans Dark Knight trilogy as a meditation on the need for authoritarian fascism. The book concludes with Logan, Wonder Woman 1984, and Amazon PrimesThe Boys as distinctly reflective fantasy narratives critical of the superhero fantasy phenomenon.
  • Författare: Joseph Zornado, Sara Reilly
  • Format: Inbunden
  • ISBN: 9783030854577
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 215
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2021-11-07
  • Förlag: Springer Nature Switzerland AG