[ecrea] Call for Chapters - Marvel Feature Films

Please consider the following Call for Chapters. We are working with 
McFarland Press on this volume and hope to publish in 2015.

Marvel Feature Films

Edited by Robert Moses Peaslee, Matt McEniry, and Robert G. Weiner

The recent release of Guardians of the Galaxy marks the penultimate film 
in the so-called second “phase” of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, a 
group of big-budget tentpole films that include Marvel’s The Avengers, 
Captain America: The Winter Solider, Thor: Dark World, Iron Man 1-3, and 
the Incredible Hulk. Meanwhile, other studios like Sony and Fox have had 
success with films based on Marvel properties such as the X-Men and 
Spider-Man.

Feature films and full-length television movies based on Marvel 
characters go back to the 1970s, however, and very little scholarship 
has been produced on these films. The editors of this volume seek essays 
that discuss Marvel feature-length films, and while we will consider 
essays that deal with the Marvel Cinematic Universe and more recent 
films, we are particularly interested in those films that have not 
received a lot of scholarly attention (including television and animated 
features).  We are also interested in work dealing with films produced 
when certain characters were Marvel properties (like Transformers, G. I. 
Joe, and Conan). Please note we are not interested in television series, 
per se, but rather the full-length films produced from them. We are also 
interested in the business aspect of Marvel Films and Marvel Animation.  
We will also consider essays on those unauthorized foreign films based 
on Marvel characters like Turkish Captain America/Spider-Man, etc.

We are particularly interested in considering essays dealing with:

Transfomers (1986), G.I. Joe (1987), Howard the Duck (1986), Captain 
America  (1979, 1990), Inhumanoids: the Movie (1986),  Trial of the 
Incredible Hulk (1989), Man-Thing (2005), Ghost Rider (2007, 2011), 
Spider-Man: The Dragon’s Challenge (1979), Dr. Strange (1979), 
Generation X (1996), Power Pack (1991), Punisher (1989), Nick Fury: 
Agent of Shield (1998), Blade 1-3 (1998, 2002, 2004), Elektra (2005), 
Thor: Tales of Asgard (2011), Iron Man: Rise of Technovore (2013), 
Planet Hulk (2010), Fantastic Four (1994) and Next Avengers (2008).

A brief but by no means conclusive list of interesting questions to 
consider:

    * How has Disney’s acquisition of Marvel changed the comic/film 
landscape?
    * Why were certain television or direct to video films like Captain 
America (1990), Captain America: Death Too Soon or Spider-Man: The 
Dragon’s Challenge released theatrically overseas?
    * Why did Howard the Duck fail to live up to its hype, and what are 
we to make of his recent reappearance in the CMU?
    * How can we think more deeply about the use of legend and myth in 
these films?
    * What was the production history of Transformers (1986) and how 
did the film eventually factor into the continuity of the Marvel comics 
series?
    * Cyberpunk influences, particularly in films like Iron Man: Rise 
of Technovore
    * Faustian influences in the Ghost Rider films and the use of the 
original Ghost Rider, Carter Slade, in the first film.
    * How Daredevil and Thor were used in the Hulk television films?
    * While Blade was moderately successfully in 1998, why did it take 
the 2000’s X-Men to kick start the current wave of Marvel and superhero 
films?
    * Generation X as an example of X-film?
    * Has Marvel Animation been successful compared to DC in producing 
high quality animated films?
    * Planet Hulk as Greek/Roman myth?
    * Traditional vampire lore in the Blade series.
    * Spider-Man as a villain in the Turkish 3 Dev Adam, also featuring 
Captain America.
    * The Bollywood 'Tu Mera Superman featuring a mash-up of Superman 
and Spider-Woman?
    * Production history of producer Roger Corman’s ill-fated attempt 
at the $2 million Fantastic Four film.

Please submit a 200-500 word abstract by November 15th 
(rob.weiner /at/ ttu.edu) and  (Matthew.mceniry /at/ ttu.edu)

Upon acceptance, final essays will be due on Feb 15th

Many thanks,

Rob


Robert Moses Peaslee, Ph.D.
Associate Professor
College of Media & Communication
Texas Tech University


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