Avengers assemble! : critical perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe /
We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. Avengers Assemble! Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. In the first...
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London ; New York :
Wallflower Press,
[2018]
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Table of Contents:
- 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 1
- 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 41
- 2 Allegorical Narratives of Gods and Monsters: Thor and The Incredible Hulk 72
- 3 State Fantasy and the Superhero: (Mis)Remembering World War II in Captain America: The First Avenger 97
- 4 'Seeing... still working on believing!': The Ethics and Aesthetics of Destruction in The Avengers 109
- Phase 2
- 5 'Nothing's been the same since New York': Ideological Continuity and Change in Iron Man 3 and Than The Dark World 129
- 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 150
- 7 Blurring the Boundaries of Genre and Gender in Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man 167
- 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 186
- 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 207
- 10 The Necessary Vigilantism of the Defenders: Daredevil Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist 223
- Phase One. '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
- Allegorical narratives of gods and monsters: Thor and The Incredible Hulk
- state fantasy and the superhero: (Mis)remembering World War II in Captain America: The First Avenger
- 'Seeing ... still working on believing!': The ethics and aesthetics of destruction in The Avengers
- Phase Two. 'Nothing's been the same since New York': Ideological continuity and change in Iron Man 3 and Thor: The Dark World
- '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
- Blurring the boundaries of genre and gender in Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man
- '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. '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
- 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