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The superhero blockbuster : adaption, style, and meaning / James C. Taylor.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Taylor, James C. (Teaching fellow in film and television studies), author.
Contributor:
JSTOR (Online Service)
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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