Black Panther was the first Black superhero in mainstream American
comics. Black Panther was a cultural phenomenon that broke box
office records. Yet it wasn't just a movie led by and starring
Black artists. It grappled with ideas and conflicts central to
Black life in America and helped redress the racial dynamics of the
Hollywood blockbuster. Scott Bukatman, one of the foremost scholars
of superheroes and cinematic spectacle, brings his impeccable
pedigree to this lively and accessible study, finding in the
utopianism of Black Panther a way of re-envisioning what a
superhero movie can and should be while centering the Black
creators, performers, and issues behind it. He considers the
superheroic Black body; the Pan-African fantasy, feminism, and
Afrofuturism of Wakanda; the African American relationship to
Africa; the political influence of director Ryan Coogler's earlier
movies; and the entwined performances of Chadwick Boseman's
T'Challa and Michael B. Jordan's Killmonger. Bukatman argues that
Black Panther is escapism of the best kind, offering a fantasy of
liberation and social justice while demonstrating the power of
popular culture to articulate ideals and raise vital questions.
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