Black Panther : interrogating a cultural phenomenon / Terence McSweeney.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

McSweeney, Terence, 1974- author.

Contributor:

Rosengarten Family Fund.

Series:

Reframing Hollywood

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Black Panther (Motion picture : 2018).

Africans in motion pictures.

Superhero films.

Physical Description:

x, 242 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021.

Summary:

"Black Panther is one of the most financially successful and culturally impactful films to emerge from the American film industry in recent years. When it was released in 2018 it broke numerous records and resonated with audiences all around the world in ways which transcended the dimensions of the superhero film. In Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon author Terence McSweeney explores the film from a diverse range of perspectives, seeing it not only as a comic book adaptation and a superhero film, but also a dynamic contribution to the discourse of both African and African American studies. Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon argues that Black Panther is one of the defining American films of the last decade and the most remarkable title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2008-). The MCU has become the largest film franchise in the history of the medium and has even shaped the contours of the contemporary blockbuster, but the narratives within it have almost exclusively perpetuated largely unambiguous fantasies of American heroism and exceptionalism. In contrast, Black Panther complicates this by engaging in an entirely different mythos in its portrayal of an African nation-never colonized by Europe-as the most powerful and technologically advanced in the world. McSweeney charts how and why Black Panther became a cultural phenomenon and also a battleground on which a war of meaning was waged at a very particular time in American history"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 "Tell me a story, Baba": What is the State of Wakanda?

ch. 2 A Black Panther for the New Millennium: Geopolitics in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

ch. 3 "Ungubani?": N'Jadaka/Erik "Killmonger" Stevens

ch. 4 "It's hard for a good man to be king": Challa's Journey from Prince to King and Black Panther

ch. 5 The Women of Black Panther: Transcending the Disappointments of the MCU.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.

Other Format:

Online version: McSweeney, Terence, 1974- Black Panther

ISBN:

9781496836083

1496836081

9781496836090

149683609X

OCLC:

1250309707

Publisher Number:

40030943218