| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 310 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes filmography (pages 269-272), bibliographical references (pages 273-301), and index. |
| Contents |
1. 'That's how Dad did it, that's how America does it ... and it's worked out pretty well so far' : The Stark doctrine in Iron Man and Iron Man 2 -- 2. Allegorical narratives of gods and monsters : Thor and The Incredible Hulk -- 3. State fantasy and the superhero : (Mis)remembering World War II in Captain America : The First Avenger -- 4. 'Seeing ... still working on believing!' : The ethics and aesthetics of destruction in The Avengers -- 5. 'Nothing's been the same since New York' : Ideological continuity and change in Iron Man 3 and Thor : The Dark World -- 6. 'The world has changed and none of us can go back' : The illusory moral ambiguities of the Post-9/11 superhero in Captain America : The Winter Soldier -- 7. Blurring the boundaries of genre and gender in Guardians of the Galaxy and Ant-Man -- 8. 'Isn't that why we fight? So we can end the fight and go home?' : The enduring American monomyth in Avengers : Age of Ultron -- 9. 'What does S.H.I.E.L.D. stand for?' : The MCU on the small screen in Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. and Marvel's Agent Carter -- 10. The necessary vigilantism of the defenders : Daredevil, Jessica Jones, Luke Cage and Iron Fist. |
| Summary |
We are living in the age of the superhero and we cannot deny it. 'Avengers Assemble!' is a vibrant and theoretically informed interrogation of one of the defining and most financially successful film franchises of the new millennium. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Marvel Comics Group.
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Marvel Comics Group. |
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Superhero films -- History and criticism.
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Superhero films. |
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Comic strip characters in motion pictures.
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Comic strip characters in motion pictures. |
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Motion pictures and comic books.
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Avengers (Fictitious characters)
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Motion pictures and comic books. |
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Avengers (Fictitious characters) |
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ART -- Techniques -- Drawing. |
| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: McSweeney, Terence, 1974- Avengers assemble! London ; New York : Wallflower Press, [2018] 9780231186254 (OCoLC)1013721352 |
| ISBN |
9780231851220 (electronic book) |
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0231851227 (electronic book) |
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9780231186247 (hardcover) |
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023118624X (hardcover) |
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9780231186254 (paperback) |
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0231186258 (paperback) |
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