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Analyzing the Marvel Universe: Critical Essays on the Comics and Film Adaptations

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Availability:In StockContributor:Douglas Brode (Editor)Publish date:2024-10-30Pages:245
Language:EnglishPublisher:McFarland & CompanyISBN-13:9781476690667ISBN-10:1476690669UPC:9781476690667Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Comics & Graphic Novels, Film, TelevisionBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCTJ0FQDRS

Marvel, like other media "universes," is a collection of highly profitable and audience-satisfying products that exist not only as individual items of popular culture but coalesce to form a unique and all-encompassing identity. Within media studies, elements of popular culture once dismissed as low-brow entertainment are now studied with the seriousness that has always been afforded classics like Shakespeare's plays and ancient myth. Indeed, DC and Marvel might be thought of as competing myth systems.

This book is a collection of diverse essays covering all aspects of the Marvel Universe, from in-print graphic novels to film and television variations. Contributors present in-depth, original and inclusive interpretations of numerous individual elements of Marvel, including analysis of key characters, themes and aesthetic elements. They also offer a vision of the essential "meaning" of Marvel, including aspects that set it apart from the DC Universe and other media. Individual readings apply feminist, ethnic, and queer theory, among others, and deal with the lesser known aspects of Marvel's offerings in order to provide the definitive collection on this subject. Beginning with an introduction by the editor that provides a complete overview of the Marvel canon, this book offers the broadest and most in-depth collection on the subject to date.

Language:EnglishPublisher:McFarland & CompanyISBN-13:9781476690667ISBN-10:1476690669UPC:9781476690667Book Category:Literary Criticism, Performing ArtsBook Subcategory:Comics & Graphic Novels, Film, TelevisionBook Topic:History & CriticismSize:9.00 x 6.00 x 0.57 inchesWeight:0.8201Product ID:SCTJ0FQDRS
Douglas Brode is a novelist, screenwriter, playwright, film historian, and award winning journalist. He teaches courses on various popular culture subjects at the Newhouse School of Public Communications, Department of Radio, TV and Film, at Syracuse University. The author of more than 35 books on the visual and performing arts, he regularly appears on national radio and TV shows as a special guest.
Publisher: McFarland & Company

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