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| veröffentlicht: | New York : Columbia University Press, 2018. ©2018. |
| Medientyp: | Buch, E-Book |
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| Umfang: | 1 online resource (319 pages) |
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| ISBN: |
9780231851220
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| Ausgabe: | 1st ed. |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
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| Print version:: | McSweeney, Terence, Avengers Assemble!, New York : Columbia University Press,c2018 |
| Kollektion: | E-Books adlr |
Avengers Assemble! explores the cinematic and televisual branches of the Marvel Cinematic Universe from a diverse range of critical perspectives. Beginning with Iron Man, it considers them as both embodiments of the changing blockbuster film and affective cultural artifacts that are immersed in the turbulent political climate of their era. |
| Intro Table of Contents Acknowledgements Prologue: The Heroes We Need Right Now?: Explaining 'The Age of the Superhero' Introduction: Superheroes in the New Millennium and 'The Example of America' PHASE ONE 1. 'That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it … and it's worked out pretty well so far': The Stark Doctrine in Iron Man and Iron Man 2 2. Allegorical Narratives of Gods and Monsters: Thor and The Incredible Hulk 3. State Fantasy and the Superhero: (Mis)Remembering World War II in Captain America: The First Avenger 4. 'Seeing … still working on believing!': The Ethics and Aesthetics of Destruction in The Avengers PHASE TWO 5. 'Nothing's been the same since New York': Ideological Continuity and Change in Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World 6. 'The world has changed and none of us can go back': The Illusory Moral Ambiguities of the Post-9/11 Superhero in Captain America: The Winter Soldier 7. Blurring the Boundaries of Genre and Gender in Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man 8. 'Isn't that why we fight? So we can end the fight and go home?': The Enduring American Monomyth in Avengers: Age of Ultron THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE ON TELEVISION 9. 'What does S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for?': The MCU on the Small Screen in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel's Agent Carter 10. The Necessary Vigilantism of the Defenders: Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist Conclusion: 'Whose side are you on?': Superheroes Through the Prism of the 'War on Terror' in Captain America: Civil War Epilogue: The Superhero as Transnational Icon Untitled Bibliography Index. |