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