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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@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 threadThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Wonderful thread. Sometimes the stuff that isn’t about the world burning down on this site is just nice.
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... I know Wolk knows this, but it seems bizarre that you're not mentioning how crossover requirements helped cut into circulation of the original comic books, rendering it a hermetic and esoteric experience limited to all but a few hundred thousand readers. you do know this?
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This book is doing some of that work - https://utpress.utexas.edu/books/yockey-make-ours-marvel …
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He’s great on George Herriman and Krazy Kat.
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