Prediction: superhero movies/comics will become unpopular and go through something of a recession/winter due to covid. They won’t bomb, but they’ll underperform and be a somewhat marginal genre for a decade.
Why: straightforward extrapolation from WW2.
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What's the argument that the subject-matter popularity shifts were zeitgeist-y rather than more internal to the specific medium/genre combinations' being explored?
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Gut feel... plus in the 40s I think zeitgeist = big mainstream genres since we didn’t have huge subcultural fragmentation yet. The two were like,y kinda coextensive.

