Black Panther

Wakandan 'Civitas' and Panthering Futurity

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Edited by Jorge Serrano

Type: Essays
Subject: One Film > Black Panther
Keywords: Ryan Coogler, superheroes
Publishing date: 2023
Publisher: Vernon Press
Collection: Cinema and Culture
1st publishing: 2022
Language: English

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Physical desc.

Paperback • 240 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-64889-651-4

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Book Presentation:
This interdisciplinary academic study is for readers interested in film, media, and the comic book genre. Superhero theories are abundant, especially considering their use as a tool for coping with adversity, and some note that it is an integral part of American society, young formative minds, in particular. It is not just about learning morals but also seeing how an ideal society should function and look. There are works that review superheroes and theories about comic book series adaptions in film and text, but the writers in this compendium engage not only with the film and the intersectionality of women, Asian culture, Du Bois, and even Greek Ajax and others for comparison but also comparative analysis of works that capture African and African diasporic representation throughout various historical time periods. The anthology presents discourse that engages a variety of assessments that involve questions of positive and pejorative representation. Educators will find this a useful tool for undergraduate students as well as general audiences interested in this popular film/comic series.

About the Author:
Jorge Serrano is Assistant Professor at the University of Delaware. He has taught at the University of Tennessee and Virginia Commonwealth University. Serrano is a graduate of Columbia, Yale, and Temple universities, where he majored in classics, archaeology, and African American studies, respectively. He has published several books and articles involving the black past and origins identity.

Press Reviews:
Jorge Serrano has arranged an interesting collection of essays to dissect the character, the storyline, and the imagery of Wakanda in Ryan Coogler's box-office hit, Black Panther (2018). "Black Panther: Wakandan 'Civitas' and Panthering Futurity" addresses both the commercial and aca-demic aspects of Afrofuturism and the Black Panther narrative. It describes the Panther genre as "an obtainable ideal humanism" and places the Panther within the African worldview. The text's three seg-ments: reconfiguring, visualization and time, are well outlined and defined, and allow us to understand how African Americans, past and present, crafted images of utopia. History, anthropology, sociology, and psychology stand out in the key analysis of the key figures, con-cepts, and locations as the contributors consider the treatment of gender, concepts of utopia, colonial-ism and colonization. Thinkers like W.E.B. DuBois, Cheikh Anta Diop, and John Henrik Clarke play a role in the methodology. Additionally, the authors ask questions about African and African American aesthetics, from the use of language, music, colors and mannerisms. The duality between the casual and the academic reader is the most striking aspect of the work. Most of the articles are geared toward academics and are often a lesson in Africana Studies that teaches us how to apply what we have learned in our analysis. However, there are enough pieces for general readers that they too will find something important and powerful in each chapter. Dr. Leslie Wilson

Professor, History, Montclair State University

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