LEADER 03806nam 22006135 450 001 9910508439803321 005 20251202140841.0 010 $a9783030854584 010 $a3030854582 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-85458-4 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6800606 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6800606 035 $a(CKB)19410843900041 035 $a(OCoLC)1286428686 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-030-85458-4 035 $a(EXLCZ)9919410843900041 100 $a20211106d2021 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice /$fby Joseph Zornado, Sara Reilly 205 $a1st ed. 2021. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (219 pages) 311 08$aPrint version: Zornado, Joseph The Cinematic Superhero As Social Practice Cham : Springer International Publishing AG,c2021 9783030854577 327 $a1. Chapter One:- Introduction: A Plague of Superheroe -- Chapter Two:- The Superhero with a Thousand Faces -- Chapter Three:- Fantasy and the Working-Class Superhero -- Chapter Four:- Fantasies of the Anthropocene -- Chapter Five:- The Cinematic Superhero as Other -- Chapter Six:- Superhero Fantasy in Crisis -- Chapter Seven:- Conclusion: Destroy All Monsters! 330 $aThis book analyzes the cinematic superhero as social practice. The study?s critical context brings together psychoanalysis and restorative and reflective nostalgia as a way of understanding the ideological function of superhero fantasy. It explores the origins of cinematic superhero fantasy from antecedents in myth and religion, to twentieth-century comic book, to the cinematic breakthrough with Superman (1978). The authors then focus on Spider-Man as reflective response to Superman?s restorative nostalgia, and read MCU?s overarching narrative from Iron Man to End Game in terms of the concurrent social, political, and environmental conditions as a world in crisis. Zornado and Reilly take up Wonder Woman and Black Panther as self-conscious attempts to reflect on gender and race in restorative superhero fantasy, and explore Christopher Nolan?s Dark Knight trilogy as a meditation on the need for authoritarian fascism. The book concludes with Logan, Wonder Woman 1984, and Amazon Prime?s The Boys as distinctly reflective fantasy narratives critical of the superhero fantasy phenomenon. Joseph Zornado is Professor of English at Rhode Island College, USA, and author of numerous essays and books, including Disney and the Dialectic of Desire: Fantasy as Social Practice (Palgrave MacMillan, 2017) and Critical Thinking: Developing the Intellectual Tools for Social Justice (2019). Sara Reilly is Adjunct Instructor and Academic Advisor at Rhode Island College, USA. She teaches first-year writing and college success. 606 $aMotion pictures 606 $aTelevision broadcasting 606 $aMotion pictures$xAesthetics 606 $aPsychoanalysis 606 $aFilm and Television Studies 606 $aFilm Philosophy 606 $aPsychoanalysis 615 0$aMotion pictures. 615 0$aTelevision broadcasting. 615 0$aMotion pictures$xAesthetics. 615 0$aPsychoanalysis. 615 14$aFilm and Television Studies. 615 24$aFilm Philosophy. 615 24$aPsychoanalysis. 676 $a791.43652 676 $a791.43652 700 $aZornado$b Joseph L.$01252215 702 $aReilly$b Sara 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910508439803321 996 $aThe cinematic superhero as social practice$92902886 997 $aUNINA