{"product_id":"the-superhero-blockbuster-adaptation-style-and-meaning-hardback-9781496856777","title":"The Superhero Blockbuster; Adaptation, Style, and Meaning (Hardback) 9781496856777","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Superhero Blockbuster\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAdaptation, Style, and Meaning\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJames C. Taylor (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496856777\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 15 April 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages, 87 b\u0026amp;w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e“Throughout \u003ci\u003eThe Superhero Blockbuster\u003c\/i\u003e, Taylor engages the relevant discourses beyond his primary engine, successfully intersecting a wide and diverse array of scholarship that grapples with everything from the study of CGI aesthetics, urban spatiality and political ideology, nostalgia, and others with nuance and care. This is top shelf.” - Drew Morton, author of \u003ci\u003ePanel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Superhero Blockbuster: Adaptation, Style, and Meaning\u003c\/i\u003e builds an innovative framework for analyzing one of the most prominent genres in twenty-first-century Hollywood. In combining theories of adaptation with close textual analysis, James C. Taylor provides a set of analytical tools with which to undertake nuanced exploration of superhero blockbusters’ meanings. This deep understanding of the films attends to historical, sociopolitical, and industrial contexts and also illuminates key ways in which the superhero genre has contributed to the development of the Hollywood blockbuster.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Each chapter focuses on a different superhero or superhero team, covering some of the most popular superhero blockbusters based on DC and Marvel superheroes\u003ci\u003e.\u003c\/i\u003e The chapters cover different aspects of the films’ adaptive practices, exploring the adaptation of stylistic strategies, narrative models, and modes of seriality from superhero comic books, while being attentive to the ways in which the films engage with the wider networks of texts in various media that comprise a given superhero franchise. Chapter one looks back to the first superhero blockbuster, 1978’s \u003ci\u003eSuperman: The Movie\u003c\/i\u003e, examining its cinematic re-envisioning of the quintessential superhero and role in establishing Hollywood’s emerging model of blockbuster filmmaking. Subsequent chapters analyze the twenty-first-century boom in superhero blockbusters and examine digital imaging and nostalgia in \u003ci\u003eSpider-Man\u003c\/i\u003e films, Marvel Studios’ adaptation of a shared universe model of seriality in the Marvel Cinematic Universe, and the use of alternate timeline narratives in \u003ci\u003eX-Men\u003c\/i\u003e films. The book concludes by turning its analytical toolkit to analysis of DC Studios’ cinematic universe, the DC Extended Universe.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Superhero Blockbusters as Adaptations\u003cbr\u003eChapter 1. Truth, Justice, and the Cinematic Way: \u003ci\u003eSuperman: The Movie\u003c\/i\u003e, the First Superhero Blockbuster\u003cbr\u003eChapter 2. Digital Power and Moral Responsibility: Spider-Man and the Marvel Superhero in the Twenty-First Century\u003cbr\u003eChapter 3. Earth’s Mightiest Superhero Blockbusters: Networked Seriality in the Marvel Cinematic Universe\u003cbr\u003eChapter 4. The Strangest Continuity of All: Alternate Timelines in Fox’s X-Men Films\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: Crisis on the DC Extended Universe\u003cbr\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\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":52607727796504,"sku":"9781496856777","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-superhero-blockbuster-adaptation-style-and-meaning-hardback-9781496856777","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}