Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon
Written by Terence McSweeney
Narrated by James Fouhey
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McSweeney argues that Black Panther is one of the defining American films of the last decade and the most remarkable title in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The MCU has become the largest film franchise in the history of the medium and has even shaped the contours of the contemporary blockbuster, but the narratives within it have almost exclusively perpetuated largely unambiguous fantasies of American heroism and exceptionalism. In contrast, Black Panther complicates this by engaging in an entirely different mythos in its portrayal of an African nation-never colonized by Europe-as the most powerful and technologically advanced in the world. McSweeney charts how and why Black Panther became a cultural phenomenon and also a battleground on which a war of meaning was waged at a very particular time in American history.
Terence McSweeney
Terence McSweeney is senior lecturer in film and television studies at Solent University. He is author of The "War on Terror" and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second; Avengers Assemble! Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe; and The Contemporary Superhero Film: Projections of Power and Identity. He was named Author of the Year 2021 in African Studies by the Centre for African Studies of Babeş-Bolyai University Cluj-Napoca for his book, Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon, published by University Press of Mississippi.
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