{"product_id":"cinematic-superhero-as-social-practice-9783030854584","title":"Cinematic Superhero as Social Practice","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis 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’sThe Boys as distinctly reflective fantasy narratives critical of the superhero fantasy phenomenon.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52895102959895,"sku":null,"price":13430.27,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0679\/6918\/8119\/files\/9783030854584.jpg?v=1781258766","url":"https:\/\/payment.letskitaboo.com\/ur\/products\/cinematic-superhero-as-social-practice-9783030854584","provider":"Kitaboo One eStore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}