@article{1440935,
      recid = {1440935},
      author = {Zornado, Joseph L., and Reilly, Sara,},
      title = {The cinematic superhero as social practice /},
      pages = {1 online resource (vii, 215 pages)},
      abstract = {This book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social  practice. The studys 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 Supermans restorative nostalgia,  and read MCUs 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  Nolans Dark Knight trilogy as a meditation on the need for  authoritarian fascism. The book concludes with Logan,  Wonder Woman 1984, and Amazon Primes The Boys as distinctly  reflective fantasy narratives critical of the superhero  fantasy phenomenon. Joseph Zornado is Professor of English  at Rhode Island College, USA, and author of numerous essays  and books, including Disney and the Dialectic of Desire:  Fantasy as Social Practice (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) and  Critical Thinking: Developing the Intellectual Tools for  Social Justice (2019). Sara Reilly is Adjunct Instructor  and Academic Advisor at Rhode Island College, USA. She  teaches first-year writing and college success.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1440935},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85458-4},
}