HSPLS site
Login
My List - 0
Help
Search
My Account
Databases
HI Newspaper
eBooks/Audiobooks
Learning
PC Reservation
Reading Program
Basic
Advanced
Power
History
Search:
Title Browse
Author Browse
Subject Browse
Best Seller Browse
Music Title Browse
Video/DVD Title Browse
Journal/Newspaper Title Browse
Serial Title Browse
Series Browse (includes Bestseller List)
General Keyword
Title Keyword
Author Keyword
Subject Keyword
Name Keyword
Series Keyword
Score Title Browse
Talking Book Title Browse
Awards Note Browse
Bib No.
Barcode
Refine Search
> You're searching:
HAWAII STATE PUBLIC LIBRARY SYSTEM
Item Information
Holdings
Summary
More Content
More by this author
Jenkins, Tricia, author.
Subjects
Superhero films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
Browse Catalog
by author:
Jenkins, Tricia, author.
by title:
Superheroes, movies,...
MARC Display
Superheroes, movies, and the state : how the US government shapes cinematic universes / Tricia Jenkins and Tom Secker.
by
Jenkins, Tricia, author.
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2022]
Subjects
Superhero films -- United States -- History and criticism.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Motion pictures -- Political aspects -- United States -- History -- 21st century.
ISBN:
9780700632763 (cloth : alk. paper) :
070063276X (cloth : alk. paper)
Description:
x, 304 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Requests:
0
Summary:
"Despite continued warnings of "superhero fatigue," Marvel and DC's current cinematic universes (the MCU and DCEU) have dominated the last two decades of popular culture and continue to obliterate box-office records. Where other scholars have focused solely on superhero films' global popularity, reflections of American imperialism, cultural legacy, or treatment of minority groups, Jenkins and Secker examine these films' production-side relationships with the American Department of Defense (DOD), NASA, the Science and Entertainment Exchange (SEEX), and other government agencies that have aided (or withdrawn from) their creation and promotion. This government-entertainment complex, they argue, uses superhero films as non-traditional propaganda: the state does not directly generate or force the creation of these movies, but instead leverages its unique resources to encourage positive images and messaging. Positive portrayals of the state differ from movie to movie, and military and scientific agencies emphasize different "American values," but their methods are similar and their efforts can coincide. By using documents obtained from government entertainment liaison offices through years of FOIA requests (including script notes, production correspondence, and marketing materials), as well as personal interviews with both producers and government liaisons, Jenkins and Secker illustrate how and why state agencies invest in the production of superhero films, how their support-or lack thereof-influences those films' final narratives, and how both studios' past films and current story arcs offer opportunities to diversify their future productions"--
Copy/Holding information
Location
Collection
Call No.
Status
Hawaii State Library
Art, Music & Recreation
791.43652 Je
Checked In
Add Copy to MyList
Horizon Information Portal 3.25_9884
© 2001-2013
SirsiDynix
All rights reserved.