If you mention the word ‘superhero’ these days, everyone and
their mum can tell you a potted history of it all, because
they’ve sat through numerous phases, extended TV series, and
animated side-specials of expansive character-development,
culminating in extraordinary final chapters, with the screen
literally stacked full of characters battling one another while
your eyes bleed with excitement and spectacle. But before
1997, people would generally only think of a few things:
Christopher Reeve smiling as he keeps a watchful eye over Earth’s
atmosphere, Michael Keaton running around Gotham while dressed in
moulded rubber. Nicholas Hammond's Spider-Man being hauled up a
wall on a rope, pretending to grip it, while also being a foot away
from it. Bill Bixby trying not to get angry, Flash Gordon arriving
in another galaxy, that was essentially a soft porn film, Dolph
Lundgren mumbling in broken English while Frank Langella hammed
behind a mask, and how Michael Crawford dressed like a bird was the
closest thing Disney had to a cinematic universe. Despite
starting on a high in 1978, by 1997 there could be no doubt that
the genre was dead. Out was the sheen of verisimilitude, and in
were Bat-credit-cards, ugly CGI, slashed budgets, rubber nipples
and Martin Sheen in a girdle. So, whatever happened to the
heroes? Join John Rain as he walks through every film of note from
1978 to 1997, and examines just what went wrong, and how. Is
it a bird? Is it a plane? No, it’s SUPERBOOK.Â
General
| Imprint: |
Polaris Publishing Limited
|
| Country of origin: |
United Kingdom |
| Release date: |
November 2023 |
| Authors: |
John Rain
|
| Dimensions: |
216 x 138 x 35mm (L x W x T) |
| Pages: |
380 |
| ISBN-13: |
978-1-915359-13-1 |
| Categories: |
Books
|
| LSN: |
1-915359-13-9 |
| Barcode: |
9781915359131 |
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