The Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice (Hardcover, 1st ed. 2021)

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.

General

Imprint:	Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of origin:	Switzerland
Release date:	November 2021
First published:	2021
Authors:	Joseph Zornado • Sara Reilly
Dimensions:	210 x 148mm (L x W)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	215
Edition:	1st ed. 2021
ISBN-13:	978-3-03-085457-7
Categories:	Books > Arts & Architecture > Performing arts > General Books > Social sciences > Psychology > Philosophy & theory of psychology > Psychoanalysis & psychoanalytical theory
LSN:	3-03-085457-4
Barcode:	9783030854577

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