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Summary:

"The Marvel Cinematic Universe has generated considerable fan engagement with its emphasis on socially relevant characters and plots. This collection of new essays examines those controversial themes and the ways they represent, construct and distort American culture"-- [Provided by publisher]

Table of Contents:

• Multiliteracies of the MCU : continuity literacy and the sophisticated reader(s) of superheroes media / Perry Dantzler
• A bigger universe : Marvel studios and transmedia storytelling / Liam Burke
• #ITSALLCONNECTED : assembling the Marvel universe / Lisa K. Perdigao
• America assemble : The Avengers as therapeutic public memory / Derek R. Sweet Your ancestors called it magic : building coherence in the MCU through continuity with the past / William L. Svitavsky
• Stark contrasts : reinventing Iron Man for 21st century cinema / Sarah Zaidan
• Silly love songs, gender, guardians of the Galaxy and Avengers : age of Ultron / James Rovira
• Hooked on the wrong kind of feeling : popular music and nostalgiain the Marvel cinematic universe / Masani McGee
• Tracing views of nature in the Marvel cinematic universe / Elizabeth D. Blum
• Bodies that shatter : violence and spectacle in The Avengers / Antony Mullen
• You were the world's first superhero : Marvel Studio's superheroes, law and the pursuit of justice / Jason Bainbridge
• Enemies, foreign and domestic : villainy and terrorism in Thor / Sasha-Mae Eccleston
• More than a shield : security and empire building in Captain America : The Winter Soldier and Vergil's Aeneid / Jennifer A. Rea
• Acting with limited oversight : S.H.I.E.L.D. and the role of intelligence and intervention in the Marvel cinematic universe / Jennifer Beckett
• To be the shield : American imperialism and explosive identity politics in Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. / Samira Shirish Nadkarni.

Contributors:

Chambliss, Julian C. , editor

Svitavsky, William L. , editor

Fandino, Daniel , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Other Related Resources:

Print version: Assembling the Marvel cinematic universe (Jefferson, North Carolina : MCFARLAND, 2018 — ISBN 1476664188)

Subjects:

Marvel Entertainment Group — Influence

Motion pictures and comic books — United States — Influence

Superhero films

Marvel Entertainment Group

Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)

Motion pictures and comic books

United States

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references, filmography and index.
Description based on: Print version record.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN1995.9.C36 A87 2018eb

ISBNs:

9781476632858 (electronic bk.)
1476632855 (electronic bk.)
1476664188 [Invalid]
9781476664187 [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1028637829