The cinematic superhero as social practice / Joseph Zornado, Sara Reilly.
Zornado, Joseph L., author.; Reilly, Sara, author.
2021
PN1992.63
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Title The cinematic superhero as social practice / Joseph Zornado, Sara Reilly.
Author Zornado, Joseph L., author.
ISBN 9783030854584 (electronic bk.)
3030854582 (electronic bk.)
9783030854577
3030854574
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85458-4
Published Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Copyright ©2021
Language English
Description 1 online resource (vii, 215 pages)
Item Number 10.1007/978-3-030-85458-4 doi
Call Number PN1992.63
Dewey Decimal Classification 791.43652
Summary 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.
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Source of Description Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCOhost platform, viewed April 15, 2022).
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1. Chapter One:- Introduction: A Plague of Superheroe
Chapter Two:- The Superhero with a Thousand Faces
Chapter Three:- Fantasy and the Working-Class Superhero
Chapter Four:- Fantasies of the Anthropocene
Chapter Five:- The Cinematic Superhero as Other
Chapter Six:- Superhero Fantasy in Crisis
Chapter Seven:- Conclusion: Destroy All Monsters!

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