Marvel Studios has provided some of the biggest worldwide cinematic hits of the last eight
years, from Iron Man (2008) to the record-breaking The Avengers (2012), and beyond …

The present study was conducted with female undergraduates in the Midwestern region of
US to examine the potential positive and negative influences of the gendered depictions of …

Teaching Visual Literacy in the Primary Classroom shows how everyday literacy sessions
can be made more exciting, dynamic and effective by using a wide range of media and …

After debuting in 1938, Superman soon became an American icon. But why has he
maintained his iconic status for nearly 80 years? And how can he still be an American icon …

An analysis of the Hollywood Teen Movie from a variety of key theoretical
perspectivesRethinking the Hollywood Teen Movie is the first academic monograph to …

Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first
century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic …

This paper argues that popular geopolitics needs to pay attention to the full range of the
cultural economy in its analyses of popular culture artifacts. Previous work has been …

A Brief History of Comic Book Movies traces the meteoric rise of the hybrid art form of the
comic book film. These films trace their origins back to the early 1940s, when the first …

This paper proposes that Gutt's work on translation (2000), situated in a relevance-theoretic
framework, provides a productive basis on which to discuss adaptations, especially of …

In the film industry, which is notoriously high risk, sequels and adaptations stand out as
successful films. Conceptualizing adaptations and sequels as extended brands, this paper …