Avengers Assemble! -

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Résumé :
Beginning with Iron Man in 2008, this study provocatively explores both the cinematic and the televisual branches of the series across ten dynamic and original chapters from a diverse range of critical perspectives which analyse their status as an embodiment of the changing industrial practices of the blockbuster film and their symbolic potency as affective cultural artifacts that are profoundly immersed in the turbulent political climate of their era.

Biographie:
Terence McSweeney is senior lecturer in Media Arts and Technology at Southampton Solent University. He is the author of The War on Terror and American Film: 9/11 Frames per Second' (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), Beyond the Frame: The Films and Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky (Aporetic Press, 2015) and the co-editor of Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film (Wallflower, 2012).

Sommaire:
Acknowledgements
Prologue: The Heroes We Need Right Now?: Explaining `The Age of the Superhero?
Introduction: Superheroes in the New Millennium and `The Example of Americ?
PHASE ONE
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
PHASE TWO
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
THE MARVEL CINEMATIC UNIVERSE ON TELEVISION
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
Conclusion: `Whose side are you on??: Superheroes Through the Prism of the `War on Terror? in Captain America: Civil War
Epilogue: The Superhero as Transnational Icon
Filmography
Bibliography
Index