The Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice 1st Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030854577,3030854574,9783030854584, 3030854582

Product details:

• ISBN-10: 3030854582
• ISBN-13: 9783030854584
• Author: Joseph Zornado, Sara Reilly

This book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social practice. The study’s 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 Superman’s restorative nostalgia, and read MCU’s 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 Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy as a meditation on the need for authoritarian fascism. The book concludes with Logan, Wonder Woman 1984, and Amazon Prime’sThe Boys as distinctly reflective fantasy narratives critical of the superhero fantasy phenomenon.

Table contents:

1. Introduction: A Plague of Superheroes

2. The Superhero with a Thousand Faces

3. Fantasy and the Working-Class Superhero

4. Fantasies of the Anthropocene

5. The Cinematic Superhero as Other

6. Superhero Fantasy in Crisis

7. Conclusion: Destroy All Monsters!

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