The Superhero Blockbuster

Adaptation, Style, and Meaning

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de James C. Taylor

Type

Studies

Sujet

Genre > Fantasy

Mots Clés

superheroes, comics, adaptation

Année d'édition

2025 (March 31, 2025)

Editeur

University Press of Mississippi

Langue

anglais

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Paperback • 280 pages
6 x 9 inches (15 x 23 cm)

ISBN

978-1-4968-5678-4

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Description de l'ouvrage:
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.

À propos de l'auteur :
James C. Taylor is a teaching fellow in film and television studies at the University of Warwick. His work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, as well as the anthology Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes, published by University Press of Mississippi. His research interests include adaptation, comics, Hollywood cinema, digital imaging, media franchising, and film seriality.

Revue de Presse:
Throughout The Superhero Blockbuster, Taylor engages the relevant discourses beyond his primary engine, successfully intersecting a wide and diverse array of scholarship that grapples with everything from the study of CGI aesthetics, urban spatiality and political ideology, nostalgia, and others with nuance and care. This is top shelf. -- Drew Morton, author of Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era

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