Superhero Multiverse: Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media

The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adaptation, re-imagining, and re-making.

Publisher Marketing: Lorna Piatti-Farnell is professor of film and popular culture at Auckland University of Technology, where she is also director of the Popular Culture Research Centre. Table of Contents : Acknowledgments Introduction Lorna Piatti-Farnell Part I: Across Platforms and Formats 1. ¬From Cinematic to Podcast Universe: Wolverine: The Long Night and the Multiplication of the Marvel Multiverse Cory Barker 2. The Multiverse Paradigm and the Reinvention of Legion Whitney Hardin and Julia Kiernan 3. Frictions, Factions, and Fatalities: Adapting DC Comic Characters into Video Games Carl Wilson 4. "I feel like I'm getting my Wonder Woman back," Wonder Woman, Lynda Carter, Fans, and Authenticities in the DC Extended Universe Joan Ormrod 5. Postmodern Parody in Animated Superhero Cinema James C. Taylor Part II: Transformative Meanings 6. Reanimating Witchcraft: Creating A Feminist Embodied Experience in Marvel's Scarlet Witch Forrest Johnson 7. Resurrecting the Hero: Disrupted Histories, Ghostly Returns, and Gothic Transformations in MCU's Captain America Lorna Piatti-Farnell 8. Challenging Typical Ideas of Heroism and Toxic Masculinity in Alias and Jessica Jones Matthe Brief Description : "The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adaptation, re-imagining, and re-making"-- Review Quotes : Blitzed with cascades of superhumans that zip like quicksilver betwixt and between print, podcast, videogame, as well as big-tent and smartphone silverscreens, virtuoso comics scholar Lorna Piatti-Farnell, and her league of extraordinary cultural critics, invite us to take a critical pause. From incisive analyses of transmedial recreations of Wonder Woman, Scarlet Witch, Blade, Captain America, Spidey, and Jessica Jones as well as the Umbrella Academy and Power Ranger teams, we're finally handed the roadmap we've been longing for: insight, understanding--knowledge. The Superhero Multiverse wakes us to long and deep histories of class-, race-, and gender-based societal traumas. It shouts from rooftops the emancipatory power of superhero narrative performativities! Review Quotes : This collection of 16 essays "follows in the footsteps of existing scholarship in the field ... and focus[es] on the textual and cultural impact of the superhero icon on transmedia production, with an emphasis on re-adapting, re-imagining, and re-making" (p. 2). The volume considers an array of topics in an accessible, intelligent manner. This includes analysis of the dramatic podcast Wolverine: The Long Night, engagements with streaming programs such as The Umbrella Academy and Jessica Jones, and considerations of Batman across cultures. Focused almost exclusively on contemporary iterations of the superhero, often beyond the confines of the printed page, this volume will appeal to students and scholars of popular culture. Recommended. Undergraduates through faculty and general readers. Publisher Marketing : The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media, with an emphasis on re-adaptation, re-imagining, and re-making. Review Citations: Choice 07/01/2023 (EAN 9781793624598, Hardcover)

Format: Hardcover | Pages: 322 | Publication Date: 2021-10-15