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Bezig met laden... Superheroes!: Capes and Crusaders in Comics and Films (2008)door Roz Kaveney
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Modern myths, cheap trash or the objects of fetishist desire? Most people know something about Superman, Batman, Spider-Man and Wonder Woman, even if what they know is heavily filtered through film and television versions, rather than the comics in which they first appeared. Yet, even though the continuity of the DC and Marvel Comics universes rival or surpass in size almost anything else in Western culture, surprisingly little attention has been paid to comics, which we were supposed to grow out of. In "Superheroes!", acclaimed cultural commentator Roz Kaveney argues that this is a mistake, that, at their best, superhero comics are a form in which some writers and artists are doing fascinating work, not in spite of their chosen form, but because of it. "Superheroes!" discusses the slow accretion of comics universes from the thirties to the present day, the ongoing debate within the conventions of the superhero comic about whether superheroes are a good thing and the discussion within the comics fan community of the extent to which superhero comics are disfigured by misogyny and sexism. Roz Kaveney attempts to explain the differences between Marvel and DC, the notion of the floating present (or why Spider-Man, fifteen when he adopted the costume, is still only in his early thirties), and the various attempts by both companies to re-invent and re-boot individual characters and their entire continuity universes. She also looks at the influence of comics on the group of film and television screenwriters she calls 'the fanboy creators', all of whom moonlight as comics script writers, using Joss Whedon as her case study, and examines the adaptation of well-known comics into large-budget feature films, not always to the advantage of the material. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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However, what I got out of this book might perhaps mean that it's not so obviously a book for a non-comics readership (though it is aimed at all who would like to know about the intersection of comics and films). For instance, I caught up on huge swathes of comics narrative that I've never bothered with (having removed myself from mainstream comics through jadedness) and she makes it sound interesting, fun, and worth bothering about. But if you're not already at least a bit knowledgeable about comics and the way they work commercially, then despite Roz' detailed and interesting explanations I'm not sure that you will come away enlightened so much as rather bewildered by the complexities of the comics world.
As Tony Keen pointed out in his review, there are also sadly a number of errors in the book. Some are the sort that you might skip over, depending on your focus / fandom - another reviewer picked up on her misspelling of "Ra's Al Ghul" as "R'as", which I wouldn't particularly have noticed myself, but I certainly did notice when she misspelled Illyana Rasputin as Lilyana. These are small errors individually, though there are also some infelicities of writing such as a point where she refers to Wanda Maximoff and the Scarlet Witch separately, and this is clearly a result of not having fully revised the sentence. Taken together, though, they do leave an unfortunate impression of carelessness, and certainly should be fixed in any future printings.
Those two paras above make me sound too nit-picky, and I did really enjoy this book and found a lot to discuss with friends. For instance, her view of superhero continuity as a "thick text" that is created by multiple contributors all playing a delicate balancing act with pre-existing knowledge, and making changes that are more, or less, successful but which involve quite a deep level of knowledge, is both a valuable addition to discussions of this area and a boost to the notion of superhero comics as a subject worthy of serious study. (