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McLean, Duncan. "Not Another Superhero Movie: Genre Blending in the Marvel Cinematic Universe." Refractory 32 2019. Accessed 6Jan. 2026. <https://refractory-jour ... vel-cinematic-universe/>. Added by: joachim (06/01/2026, 17:10) |
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| Resource type: Web Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed BibTeX citation key: McLean2019 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Adaptation, Film adaptation, Genre, Marvel, Superhero, USA Creators: McLean Collection: Refractory |
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| Attachments | URLs https://refractory ... inematic-universe/ |
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The superhero movie is undoubtedly the dominant blockbuster movie form of the first two decades of the 21st century, with Marvel Studios leading the way over the last decade with the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU). A key factor that has enabled Marvel Studios to achieve and sustain a level of commercial and critical success that has largely eluded its competitors in the superhero film space is an approach to genre that involves blending the superhero form with a variety of other more established cinematic genres. This paper shall explore how this is achieved at both the level of individual films through the borrowing of iconographic and thematic conventional markers, and across the MCU as a whole through a heightened melodrama coming from the hybridizing of episodic and serial storytelling.
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