It's perhaps not a defining aspect of cinema as traditionally understood but the fact that MCU requires deep immersive knowledge does make it narratively interesting (true also of the comics). It's a new type of narrative, one critics have a hard time grappling with. https://twitter.com/keithcalder/status/1192620991777837056 …
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Now, I personally have never liked the open-ended soap opera aspect of Marvel comics (and later MCU films), preferring to skim them for surface pleasure to deep immersion. But a proper critical account needs to explain the appeal to the non-skimmers, the deep fans.
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Who will be the Manny Farber of Marvel comics & MCU films -- the critic who can burrow deep into the form and explain its unique properties and distinctive pleasures? I'm hoping
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@tnyfrontrow's two tweets offer a useful way to think about Marvel comics & MCU: there is a parallel with Talmudic & Christian exegetical texts in the way stories build on stories, interpretation on interpretation.https://twitter.com/tnyfrontrow/status/1191570600940199936 …Show this thread
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Well, that's how you and I experience them but the fans are really into the immersive aspect, so we need an account that explains that.
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A mythos, perhaps?
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See Henry Jenkins.
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what then replaces zola's naturalism? what is it about ourselves that the MCU is representing to us?
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you used a fancy literary term tho, not sure if that's allowed. might have to check with marty?
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