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The superhero blockbuster : adaption, style, and meaning / James C. Taylor.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Taylor, James C. (Teaching fellow in film and television studies), author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Superhero films--History and criticism.
- Superhero films.
- Comic strip characters in motion pictures.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (x, 268 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2025]
- Contents:
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction: Superhero blockbusters as adaptation
- Chapter 1. Truth, justice, and the cinematic way: "Superman: The movie," the first superhero blockbuster
- Chapter 2. Digital power and moral responsibility: Spider-Man and the Marvel superhero in the twenty-first century
- Chapter 3. Earth's mightiest superhero blockbusters: networked seriality in the Marvel cinematic universe
- Chapter 4. The strangest continuity of all: alternate timelines in Fox's X-Men films
- Conclusion: Crisis on the DC extended univerise
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. New York Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 14, 2025).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Taylor, James C. Superhero blockbuster
- ISBN:
- 9781496856821
- 1496856821
- 9781496856807
- 1496856805
- 9781496856791
- 1496856791
- 9781496856814
- 1496856813
- Publisher Number:
- 40032730921
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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