Remakes Reboots and Adaptations: The Superhero Multiverse : Readapting Comic Book Icons in Twenty-First-Century Film and Popular Media (Hardcover)

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The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media with an emphasis on re-adaptation re-imagining and re-making. The Superhero Multiverse focuses on the evolving meanings of the superhero icon in 21st-century film and popular media with an emphasis on re-adapting re-imagining and re-making. With its focus on multimedia and transmedia transformations The Superhero Multiverse pivots on two important points: firstly it reflects on the core concerns of the superhero narrative-including the relationship between superhero comics and superhero films the comics roots of superhero media matters of canon and hybridity and issues of recycling and stereotyping in superhero films and media texts. Secondly it considers how these intersecting textual and cultural preoccupations are intrinsic to the process of remaking and re-adapting superheroes and brings attention to multiple ways of materializing these iconic figures in our contemporary context.