{"product_id":"copyright-vigilantes-intellectual-property-and-the-hollywood-superhero-hardback-9781496851338","title":"Copyright Vigilantes; Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero (Hardback) 9781496851338","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eCopyright Vigilantes\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eIntellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eEzra Claverie (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496851338\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e23.5 x 15.6 x 2 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHighly entertaining and interesting, \u003ci\u003eCopyright Vigilantes\u003c\/i\u003e also says something important about how we cede our creative rights to conglomerates so uncritically. We need to shift the narrative around copyright, and Claverie’s book is a helpful example of how this can happen.\" - Stacey M. Lantagne, professor of law, Western New England University\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003ci\u003eCopyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero, 1998–2018 \u003c\/i\u003eexplains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain’s attempt to copy the superhero's unique powers. In this volume, author Ezra Claverie explains this fixation as a symptom of the films’ mode of production.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Since the 1930s, the dominant American comics publishers have treated the creations of artists and writers as work for hire, such that stories and characters become company property. Thus, publishers avoided sharing the profits both from magazine sales and from licensing characters into other media. For decades, creators have challenged this regime, demanding either shares of profits or outright ownership of their creations. Now that the duopoly rents, licenses, and adapts superheroes for increasingly expensive franchises, and for growing international audiences, any challenge to intellectual property relations threatens a production regime worth billions of dollars. Duopoly movies, therefore, present any attempt to break the superhero’s monopoly on their powers as the scheme of terrorists, mad scientists, or space Nazis—assuaging studio anxieties and revealing the fears of those who benefit most from the real-world ownership of superheroes. Weaving together legal analysis, Marxist political economy, and close readings of movies, \u003ci\u003eCopyright Vigilantes\u003c\/i\u003e explains the preoccupations of Hollywood’s leading genre.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter One: Copyright Vigilantes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Two: Nolan’\u003cbr\u003es Batman: Criminogenic Capitalism and the (Re)Birth of a Brand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Three: Captain America and Wonder Woman: Instrumental Heroes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Four: The Adult Turn: Reproduction of the Brand\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eChapter Five:\u003ci\u003eBlade\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eBlack Panther\u003c\/i\u003e: Strategic Blackness and the Rights of Kings\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eCoda: Dreaming Like a Supervillain\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAcknowledgments\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eNotes\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eWorks Cited\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eIndex\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607716032792,"sku":"9781496851338","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/copyright-vigilantes-intellectual-property-and-the-hollywood-superhero-hardback-9781496851338","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}