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Scott Bukatman, one of the foremost scholars of superheroes and cinematic spectacle, brings his impeccable pedigree to this lively and accessible study, finding in the utopianism of Black Panther a way of re-envisioning what a superhero movie can and should be while centering the Black creators, performers, and issues behind it. He considers the superheroic Black body; the Pan-African fantasy, feminism, and Afrofuturism of Wakanda; the African American relationship to Africa; the political influence of director Ryan Coogler’s earlier movies; and the entwined performances of Chadwick Boseman’s T’Challa and Michael B. Jordan’s Killmonger. Bukatman argues that Black Panther is escapism of the best kind, offering a fantasy of liberation and social justice while demonstrating the power of popular culture to articulate ideals and raise vital questions.
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Scott Bukatman is a professor of Film and Media Studies at Stanford University. He is the author of Hellboy's World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins, Blade Runner, The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit, Matters of Gravity: Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century, and other works on film and comics.
