James C. Taylor is a teaching fellow in film and television studies at the University of Warwick. His work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Cinema and Media Studies, as well as the anthology Toxic Masculinity: Mapping the Monstrous in Our Heroes, published by University Press of Mississippi. His research interests include adaptation, comics, Hollywood cinema, digital imaging, media franchising, and film seriality.
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"Throughout The Superhero Blockbuster, Taylor engages the relevant discourses beyond his primary engine, successfully intersecting a wide and diverse array of scholarship that grapples with everything from the study of CGI aesthetics, urban spatiality and political ideology, nostalgia, and others with nuance and care. This is top shelf." - Drew Morton, author of Panel to the Screen: Style, American Film, and Comic Books during the Blockbuster Era