Superhero Blockbusters
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Superhero Blockbusters
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Author : Felix Brinker
language : en
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Release Date : 2022-03-07
Superhero Blockbusters written by Felix Brinker and has been published by Edinburgh University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-03-07 with Performing Arts categories.
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 multi-dimensional seriality of these movies, combining practices of serialisation, adaptation, and transmedia storytelling, endows them with an unmatched potential to engage audiences over time and to actively intervene in the discourses of online fandom. The book develops a critical theory of digital-era popular seriality, examining the narrative strategies of superhero movies and their evolution, from 1978's Superman to 2018's Avengers: Infinity War and beyond. It discusses textual and extra-textual practices of fan mobilisation, and considers the genre's shared political imaginary and its purchase on contemporary political debates.
The Superhero Blockbuster
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Author : James C. Taylor
language : en
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi
Release Date : 2025-04-15
The Superhero Blockbuster written by James C. Taylor and has been published by Univ. Press of Mississippi this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-04-15 with Performing Arts categories.
The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning builds an innovative framework for analyzing one of the most prominent genres in twenty-first-century Hollywood. In combining theories of adaptation with close textual analysis, James C. Taylor provides a set of analytical tools with which to undertake nuanced exploration of superhero blockbusters’ meanings. This deep understanding of the films attends to historical, sociopolitical, and industrial contexts and also illuminates key ways in which the superhero genre has contributed to the development of the Hollywood blockbuster. Each chapter focuses on a different superhero or superhero team, covering some of the most popular superhero blockbusters based on DC and Marvel superheroes. The chapters cover different aspects of the films’ adaptive practices, exploring the adaptation of stylistic strategies, narrative models, and modes of seriality from superhero comic books, while being attentive to the ways in which the films engage with the wider networks of texts in various media that comprise a given superhero franchise. Chapter 1 looks back to the first superhero blockbuster, 1978’s Superman: The Movie, examining its cinematic re-envisioning of the quintessential superhero and role in establishing Hollywood’s emerging model of blockbuster filmmaking. Subsequent chapters analyze the twenty-first-century boom in superhero blockbusters and examine digital imaging and nostalgia in Spider-Man films, Marvel Studios’ adaptation of a shared universe model of seriality in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the use of alternate timeline narratives in X-Men films. The book concludes by turning its analytical toolkit to analysis of DC Studios’ cinematic universe, the DC Extended Universe.
The Superhero Blockbuster
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Author : James C. Taylor (Teaching fellow in film and television studies)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2024-12
The Superhero Blockbuster written by James C. Taylor (Teaching fellow in film and television studies) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-12 with Comic strip characters in motion pictures categories.
"The Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning builds an innovative framework for analyzing one of the most prominent genres in twenty-first-century Hollywood. In combining theories of adaptation with close textual analysis, James C. Taylor provides a set of analytical tools with which to undertake nuanced exploration of superhero blockbusters' meanings. This deep understanding of the films attends to historical, sociopolitical, and industrial contexts and also illuminates key ways in which the superhero genre has contributed to the development of the Hollywood blockbuster. Each chapter focuses on a different superhero or superhero team, covering some of the most popular superhero blockbusters based on DC and Marvel superheroes. The chapters cover different aspects of the films' adaptive practices, exploring the adaptation of stylistic strategies, narrative models, and modes of seriality from superhero comic books, while being attentive to the ways in which the films engage with the wider networks of texts in various media that comprise a given superhero franchise. Chapter one looks back to the first superhero blockbuster, 1978's Superman: The Movie, examining its cinematic re-envisioning of the quintessential superhero and role in establishing Hollywood's emerging model of blockbuster filmmaking. Subsequent chapters analyze the twenty-first-century boom in superhero blockbusters and examine digital imaging and nostalgia in Spider-Man films, Marvel Studios' adaptation of a shared universe model of seriality in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the use of alternate timeline narratives in X-Men films. The book concludes by turning its analytical toolkit to analysis of DC Studios' cinematic universe, the DC Extended Universe"--
Superheroes
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Author : Roz Kaveney
language : en
Publisher: I.B. Tauris
Release Date : 2008
Superheroes written by Roz Kaveney and has been published by I.B. Tauris this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Art categories.
Argues that this is a mistake, that, at their best, superhero comics are a form in which some writers and artists are doing fascinating work, not in spite of their chosen form, but because of it.
Overland
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
Overland written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Australia categories.
Film Review
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2005
Film Review written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Motion pictures categories.
May Contain Graphic Material
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Author : M. Keith Booker
language : en
Publisher: Praeger
Release Date : 2007-10-30
May Contain Graphic Material written by M. Keith Booker and has been published by Praeger this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007-10-30 with Performing Arts categories.
Since the first Superman film came to the screen in 1978, films adapted from comics have become increasingly important as a film form. Since that time, advances in computer-generated special effects have significantly improved the ability of film to capture the style and action of comics, producing film such as X-men and Spider-man.
Focus
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2019
Focus written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019 with Motion picture industry categories.
Film And The Emotions
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Film And The Emotions written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with Emotions in motion pictures categories.
Superheroes Smash The Box Office
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Author : Shawn Conner
language : en
Publisher: McFarland
Release Date : 2023-09-11
Superheroes Smash The Box Office written by Shawn Conner and has been published by McFarland this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-09-11 with Performing Arts categories.
In 1997, the superhero movie was all but dead. The last Superman flick had been released a decade earlier to disastrous reviews and ticket sales. The most recent Batman film was a franchise-killing bomb. And an oft-promised Spider-Man feature was grounded. Yet a mere five years later this once-derided genre would be well on its way to world domination at the box office and even critical respectability. How did this happen? And why, two decades later, does the phenomenon show no sign of abating? Here, for the first time, is an extensively researched soup-to-nuts history of the superhero movie, from the first bargain-basement black-and-white serials to today's multiverse blockbusters. Chronicling eight decades of stops and starts, controversies and creators, good guys and bad guys--onscreen and off--this entertaining account explains how and why our entertainment universe came to be overpowered by costumed crimefighters and their nefarious counterparts.