The politics of the Marvel cinematic universe
(2023)
Nonfiction
Book
Series:
Call Numbers:
791.4375/POLITICS
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
Lawrence, Kansas : University Press of Kansas, [2023]
DESCRIPTION
xiv, 419 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9780700633883, 070063388X, 9780700633883
LANGUAGE
English
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NOTES
"The Marvel Cinematic University (MCU) has become a touchstone of contemporary American life. In 2009, Disney purchased Marvel Entertainment for $4 billion, including its subsidiary film production company, Marvel Studios. Since then, the MCU-the collection of multi-media Marvel Studios products that share a single fictional storyline-has grown from two feature films to 23 interconnected movies, a half-dozen short films, three streaming Disney+ series, and more than 30 print titles. At the time of this writing, eight of the 25 highest grossing films of all time are MCU movies"--