Charlie Michael

Gebundenes Buch

Spider-Man

Into the Spider-Verse: Youth, Race, and the Hypertext

Beschreibung

Exploring the dynamic genres of animation and comic book films, this book examines the transmedia role of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (2018) and its critical involvement in attempts to diversify representations in youth-oriented cinema and culture.

Several years after the movie's immense commercial and critical success, a look back on the innovative features of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse shows how the film's force derives from its thoughtful depiction of Miles Morales - a young, Afro-Latino superhero who must face systemic obstacles his white predecessor nerver worried about. Engaging a web of pressing topics in the field - from transmedia storytelling to identity formation and minority representation - this book offers an accessible analysis of the hypertextual design and animation techniques, which help this film to sensitively confront the combustible dynamics of racial representation in contemporary American youth culture.

Written in an approachable style, this book is suitable for undergraduates, postgraduates, and specialists in the field. It is a versatile resource for media studies, film studies, animation studies, and cultural studies courses, but will also appeal to fans seeking to investigate the thematic underbelly of Into the Spider-Verse.

Autor

Charlie Michael is Assistant Professor in the Department of Film and Media at Emory University. His research focuses on popular culture and media industries in a global context. He is the author of French Blockbusters: Cultural Politics of a Transnational Cinema (2019) and the co-editor of the Directory of World Cinema: France (2013), and his work has also appeared in journals such as SubStance, Transnational Screens, and The Velvet Light Trap.

Produktdetails

• Cinema and Youth Cultures
• Verlag: Routledge / Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Juni 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 222mm x 145mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 200g
• ISBN-13: 9780367764500
• ISBN-10: 0367764504
• Artikelnr.: 70141631

Rezensionen

"Michael marries the worlds of film theory and larger popular culture critique in a way that is both deeply analytical and approachable for anyone interested in the majesty of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse. His gradual unfolding of Miles Morales's debut film covers the vast complexities of its narrative and construction, from the animation to the racial politics at play, that offer a way for future superhero films to appeal to a youthful demographic that sees Miles Morales as "our Spider-Man". Michael takes a leap of faith with this work, and it is one that pays off handsomely by the volume's end."

- Marcus Haynes, PhD, Georgia Gwinnett College, Author of YA novel The Orange

Scepter

"Michael's headfirst high-dive into the endless complexities of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse acts like a guided tour through pop culture's past, present, and future. Just before you think the whole thing might crash and spin off endlessly into the myriad universes of intricate film theory and modern racial politics, Michael provides the reader a crucial webline that pulls them skyward and transforms each chapter into another beautiful swing alongside the colorful cast of Spider-Men through one of Hollywood's richest contemporary texts. By the book's end, I was convinced that Michael had moved beyond analyzing Into the Spider-Verse and was instead breaking down the fundamental ways our pop culture-infused brains work!"

- Dan Gvozden, co-host of The Amazing Spider-Talk Podcast