Free Download Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero
English | 2024 | ISBN: 1496851331 | 258 Pages | PDF | 1.3 MB
Copyright Vigilantes: Intellectual Property and the Hollywood Superhero explains superhero blockbusters as allegories of intellectual property relations. In movies based on characters owned by the comics duopoly of DC and Marvel, no narrative recurs more often than a villain’s attempt to copy the superhero’s unique powers. In this volume, author Ezra Claverie explains this fixation as a symptom of the films’ mode of production.
