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MJ Flanagan

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Name:

MJ Flanagan

Email:

M.J.Flanagan@salford.ac.uk

Department:

School of Arts & Media

Homepage:

https://salford.academia.edu/MartinFlanagan

profile_image:

Biography

Expertise:

Film Studies, Contemporary Hollywood, Marvel Comics, Mikhail Bakhtin, Marvel Studios, Authorship

Job title:

Lecturer in Film Studies

Biography:

Martin Flanagan’s doctoral thesis (Sheffield) was concerned with the cinematic relevance of Bakhtinian theories, and was published as 'Bakhtin and the Movies: New Ways of Understanding Hollywood Film' in 2009 with Palgrave Macmillan. Most recently, he co-authored the first full-length scholarly study of Marvel Studios, 'The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe', with Mike McKenny and Andy Livingstone. This was published in Summer 2016 by Bloomsbury. Flanagan developed the notion of the ‘blockbuster auteur’ in an essay concerning Ang Lee’s Hulk (2003), published in the 'New Review of Film and Television Studies' (2004), and has published on aspects of comic book cinema and adaptation in collections such as 'Film and Comic Books' (2007) and 'Web-spinning Heroes: Essaysmore...

Qualifications:

PhD, Sheffield (2001)

My Most Viewed

#	Item title
1.	'Captain America : the first Avenger' (2011) - review essay. Joe Johnston and Marvel Studios uncover an antique	556	5
2.	“Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC	370	290
3.	Chapter 7 : ‘A little old-fashioned…’ : Marvel Studios and Pixar	286
4.	"Half Gandalf, Half Mr. Kipling" : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC	278	2
5.	The Marvel Studios phenomenon : inside a transmedia universe	270
6.	Chapter 4 : Captains America	256
7.	Chapter 1 : ‘Films lead policy’ : Marvel's industrial (R)evolution and the birth of a studio	196
8.	Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics	135
9.	Conclusion	113
10.	Chapter 5 : Teams/screens	110

My Latest

Flanagan, MJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7784 2020, Re-reading Alan Moore's "lost" essay on Stan Lee and Marvel Comics , in: International Graphic Novels and Comics Conference (IGNCC 2020), 1-3 July, 2020, UAL - London and online.
Flanagan, MJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7784 2017, '“Things are complicated” : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC' , Authorship, 6 (2) .
Flanagan, MJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7784 2016, 'Chapter 4 : Captains America' , in: The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe , Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, pp. 97-118.
Flanagan, MJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7784 2016, 'Chapter 1 : ‘Films lead policy’ : Marvel's industrial (R)evolution and the birth of a studio' , in: The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe , Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London.
Flanagan, MJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7784 2016, 'Chapter 5 : Teams/screens' , in: The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe , Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, pp. 119-136.
Flanagan, MJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7784 2016, 'Chapter 7 : ‘A little old-fashioned…’ : Marvel Studios and Pixar' , in: The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe , Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, pp. 159-176.
Flanagan, MJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7784 2016, 'Conclusion' , in: The Marvel Studios Phenomenon: Inside a Transmedia Universe , Bloomsbury Academic, New York and London, pp. 197-206.
Flanagan, MJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7784, Livingstone, A and McKenny, M 2016, The Marvel Studios phenomenon : inside a transmedia universe , Bloomsbury, New York.
Flanagan, MJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7784 2014, ''Captain America : the first Avenger' (2011) - review essay. Joe Johnston and Marvel Studios uncover an antique' , Scope (26) , pp. 17-24.
Flanagan, MJ ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1488-7784 "Half Gandalf, Half Mr. Kipling" : Paul Cornell at Marvel and DC , in: Transitions 5 (Conference), October 2014, Birkbeck University of London. (Unpublished)