Superhero blockbusters: seriality and politics
Superhero Blockbusters: seriality and politics
Superhero blockbusters: seriality and politics
Superhero blockbusters: seriality and politics
"This is the first book-length study to examine the enduring popularity of block-buster films based on DC or Marvel superhero comics properties. It argues that the success of superhero movies is rooted in aesthetic practices unavailable to other types of film, and suggests that …
The first edited collection with a specific focus on the new millennial phenomenon of rebooting. Provides extended case studies of key rebooted films and franchises. Interrogates the film reboot as an industrial, textual and discursive category. Considers the reboot in relation …
Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary.
Through a set of vibrant case studies, this collection investigates rebooting as a practice that seeks to remake an entire film series or franchise, with ambitions that are at once respectful and revisionary.
This book seeks to understand how gender as a practice is generated by television narratives in the overlapping of text, reception and production, and explores the viewer practices that these narratives seek to trigger anddraw on in the process.
This book seeks to understand how gender as a practice is generated by television narratives in the overlapping of text, reception and production, and explores the viewer practices that these narratives seek to trigger and draw on in the process.