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Make ours Marvel : media convergence and a comics universe / edited by Matt Yockey.

Contributor(s): Series: World comics and graphic nonfiction seriesPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, 2017Copyright date: ©2017Edition: First editionDescription: vii, 358 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781477312490 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781477312506 (pbk. : alk. paper)
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.5/973 23
LOC classification:
  • PN6725 .M34 2017
Contents:
Introduction. Excelsior! or, everything that rises must converge / Matt Yockey -- Reforming the "justice" system : Marvel's Avengers and the transformation of the all-star team book / Mark Minett and Bradley Schauer -- Man without fear : David Mack, daredevil, and the "bounds of difference" in superhero comics / Henry Jenkins -- "This female fights back!" : a feminist history of Marvel comics / Anna F. Peppard -- "Share your universe" : generation, gender, and the future of Marvel publishing / Derek Johnson -- Breaking brand : from NuMarvel to MarvelNow! Marvel comics in the age of media convergence / Deron Overpeck -- Marvel and the form of motion comics / Darren Wershler and Kalervo A. Sinervo -- Transmedia storytelling in the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" and the logics of convergence-era popular seriality / Felix Brinker -- The Marvel one-shots and transmedia storytelling / Michael Graves -- Spinning webs : constructing authors, genre, and fans in the Spider-Man film franchise / James N. Gilmore -- Playing Peter Parker : Spider-Man and superhero film performance / Aaron Taylor -- Spotting Stan : the fun and function of Stan Lee's cameos in the Marvel Universe(s) / Dru Jeffries -- Schrödinger's cape : the quantum seriality of the Marvel multiverse / William Proctor.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction. Excelsior! or, everything that rises must converge / Matt Yockey -- Reforming the "justice" system : Marvel's Avengers and the transformation of the all-star team book / Mark Minett and Bradley Schauer -- Man without fear : David Mack, daredevil, and the "bounds of difference" in superhero comics / Henry Jenkins -- "This female fights back!" : a feminist history of Marvel comics / Anna F. Peppard -- "Share your universe" : generation, gender, and the future of Marvel publishing / Derek Johnson -- Breaking brand : from NuMarvel to MarvelNow! Marvel comics in the age of media convergence / Deron Overpeck -- Marvel and the form of motion comics / Darren Wershler and Kalervo A. Sinervo -- Transmedia storytelling in the "Marvel Cinematic Universe" and the logics of convergence-era popular seriality / Felix Brinker -- The Marvel one-shots and transmedia storytelling / Michael Graves -- Spinning webs : constructing authors, genre, and fans in the Spider-Man film franchise / James N. Gilmore -- Playing Peter Parker : Spider-Man and superhero film performance / Aaron Taylor -- Spotting Stan : the fun and function of Stan Lee's cameos in the Marvel Universe(s) / Dru Jeffries -- Schrödinger's cape : the quantum seriality of the Marvel multiverse / William Proctor.

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