Avengers Assemble!
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Avengers Assemble!

Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe

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eBook - ePub
Available until 27 Jan |Learn more

Avengers Assemble!

Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe

About this book

We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. In the first single-authored monograph on the topic of the Marvel cinematic universe, Terence McSweeney asks, "Why has the superhero genre reemerged so emphatically in recent years?" In an age where people have stopped going to the cinema as frequently as they used to, they returned to it in droves for the superhero film. What is it about these films that has resonated with audiences all around the globe? Are they just disposable pop culture artifacts or might they have something interesting to say about the fears and anxieties of the world we live in today?

Beginning with Iron Man in 2008, this study provocatively explores both the cinematic and the televisual branches of the series across ten dynamic and original chapters from a diverse range of critical perspectives which analyse their status as an embodiment of the changing industrial practices of the blockbuster film and their symbolic potency as affective cultural artifacts that are profoundly immersed in the turbulent political climate of their era.

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Information

Publisher
WallFlower Press
Year
2018
eBook ISBN
9780231851220
Topic
Media & Performing Arts
Subtopic
Film & Video
INDEX
Page numbers refer to the print edition but are hyperlinked to the appropriate location in the e-book.
9/11 17, 23, 36, 129, 203
films, 8, 19, 41, 85, 94, 99, 107, 111, 119, 121–4
post-9/11 period, 8, 9, 11, 12, 16–18, 23–32, 57, 239
AC/DC (band) 43, 58
Affleck, Ben 83
Afghanistan 17, 18, 86, 233
Avengers 78, 80
Iron Man 18, 37n5, 43, 44, 45 fig. 5, 81, 102, 131, 189, 190, 241
Kunar Province 17, 43, 44, 46, 47, 51, 193, 248
Stark 27, 28, 31, 46–60, 87, 88, 90, 113, 133, 151, 192, 248
veterans 153, 233
War on Terror 17
Alford, Matthew 22
Alkhateeb, Firas 10
Al Qaeda 48
Althusser, Louis 16, 35
Amanpour, Christine 64
American exceptionalism 16, 23–4, 25 fig. 3, 57, 60, 124, 151
Anderson, Benedict 16
Ant-Man (film) 167–85
Ant-Man and the Wasp (film) 35, 183–4
Argentina 2
Arnold, Martin 72, 73, 76, 81
Asano, Tadanobu 75
Astrada, Marvin 54, 216
Auster, Albert 49
Avengers, The (film) 3, 5, 78, 80, 109–25, 143, 146, 151, 192, 246, 249
Avengers: Age of Ultron...

Table of contents

  1. Cover 
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents 
  6. Acknowledgements
  7. Prologue: The Heroes We Need Right Now?: Explaining ‘The Age of the Superhero’
  8. Introduction: Superheroes in the New Millennium and ‘The Example of America’
  9. Phase One
  10. Phase Two
  11. The Marvel Cinematic Universe On Television
  12. Conclusion: ‘Whose side are you on?’: Superheroes Through the Prism of the ‘War on Terror’ in Captain America: Civil War
  13. Epilogue: The Superhero as Transnational Icon
  14. Filmography
  15. Bibliography
  16. Index