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    1. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Nov 2019

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      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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    2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Nov 2019

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      Perhaps post-Scorsese, we can movie the debate forward by stipulating that Marvel Cinematic Universe movies are not cinema as traditionally understood and ask "well, what are they then?" https://twitter.com/keithcalder/status/1192620991777837056 …

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      Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Nov 2019

      Here's a stab at a definition: MCU shows & films make up a multi-platform open-ended multi-authored roman fleuve whose appeal comes from immersion in the density of world-building.

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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Nov 2019

          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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        3. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Nov 2019

          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 @douglaswolk does that in his forthcoming book.

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        4. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Nov 2019

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          I think @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 …

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          Richard BrodyVerified account @tnyfrontrow
          There's an extra element to superhero fandom: the foundational texts are revered like scripture, devotion to them is similar to religious faith, so criticism of the movies is taken personally—the films are now made to be "orthodox," the studios' fan service avoids "blaspheming"—
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        2. Jeet Heer‏Verified account @HeerJeet 8 Nov 2019
          Replying to @TheDocSportello

          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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        1. NenjyN‏ @Hyperactivity0 8 Nov 2019
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          A mythos, perhaps?

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        1. Dr. Michele Rosen‏ @michyssoise 8 Nov 2019
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          See Henry Jenkins.

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        2. Eric Brandom‏ @ebrandom 8 Nov 2019
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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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        1. *WASH YOUR HANDS* locally sourced (((wheatjerm)))‏ @MrJeremyM 8 Nov 2019
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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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