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: Essays
more...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: Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man' (2012). He has also contributed on comics themes to the journals 'Closure' and 'Scope'. Other journals carrying Flanagan's work include 'IXQUIC' and 'Reconstruction'. He is also a contributor to the 'Routledge Encyclopedia of Film Theory' (2014)