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In The Transmedia Construction of the Black Panther: Long Live the
King, Bryan J. Carr explores and analyzes the evolution of the
Black Panther character since his inception in the 1960s across
comics, film, television, video games, and music. The Black
Panther, Carr argues, is the sum of the creative works of countless
individuals across various media that have each contributed to the
legacy of the first mainstream Black superhero, all happening
against a backdrop of social and cultural upheaval, global
political struggle for equality, and the long shadow of colonizing
Western attitudes. The Panther's existence is a complex one that
not only illustrates in microcosm those same struggles in the
historically white superhero space, but also offers a perfect case
study for media trends of representation then and now. Carr
addresses a number of questions: Does the Black Panther really
represent a powerful counter-narrative to long-standing regressive
attitudes toward Black identity and Africa? Who were the key
contributors to our understanding of the character? And finally,
how can we use the character to understand the complexities of our
modern consolidated media systems? Scholars of media studies, film
and television studies, comics studies, cultural studies, critical
race studies, and African studies will find this book particularly
useful.
The popularity of cable news, satire, documentaries, and political
blogs suggest that people are often absorbing and dissecting direct
political messages from informational media. But entertainment
media also discusses the important political issues of our time,
though not as overtly. Nonetheless, consumers still learn, debate,
and form opinions on important political issues through their
relationship with entertainment media. While many scholarly books
examine these political messages found in popular culture, very few
examine how actual audiences read these messages. Parasocial
Politics explores how consumers form complex relationships with
media texts and characters, and how these readings exist in the
nexus between real and fictional worlds. This collection of
empirical studies uses various methodologies, including surveys,
experiments, focus groups, and mixed methods, to analyze how actual
consumers interpret the texts and the overt and covert political
messages encoded in popular culture.
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