The Contemporary Superhero Film

Terence McSweeney is senior lecturer in Media Arts and Technology at Southampton Solent University. He is the author of The War on Terror and American Film: 9/11 Frames per Second' (Edinburgh University Press, 2014), Beyond the Frame: The Films and Film Theory of Andrei Tarkovsky (Aporetic Press, 2015) and the co-editor of Millennial Cinema: Memory in Global Film (Wallflower, 2012).Terence McSweeney is senior lecturer in film and television studies at Solent University. His books include Avengers Assemble! Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (Wallflower, 2018) and The War on Terror and American Film: 9/11 Frames Per Second (2014).

Iain Smith, author of The Hollywood Meme: Transnational Adaptations in World Cinema:
Terence McSweeney has written an excellent introduction to superhero cinema and the surrounding scholarship in the field. The Contemporary Superhero Film does exactly what I’d expect in a student-friendly overview of the superhero genre.