The MCU as zombified metafiction
Year: 2025
Type: article
Abstract: This paper explores how the Marvel Cinematic Universe, in its death throes, is turning metafictional in the worst possible sense, as a thoroughly narcissistic narrative that can neither acknowledge its decline nor let go of its power, although symptoms of a partial, guilty self-consciousness abound in its recent productions.
DOI: 10.3828/sfftv.2025.3
Author: Miguel Sebastián-Martín
Language: English
Topic: Cinema History and Criticism
Subfield: Visual Arts and Performing Arts
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W4408489007