The Smallville Chronicles: Critical Essays on the Television by Lincoln Geraghty

By Lincoln Geraghty

In 2001, one more variation of the Superman comedian ebook got here to tv. Lasting 10 seasons, Smallville took the conventional Superman tale and became it into an American youngster motion drama approximately Clark Kent's lifestyles at excessive school—before he donned the recognized blue tights and purple cape. rather than depicting Superman's clashes with criminals in city, the convey thinking about how Clark first constructed his powers and realized to deal with ladies, college, and teen angst. even if principally neglected via critics and derided by way of Superman lovers who seemed it as too a long way a departure from the comedian publication canon, Smallville still endeared an entire new iteration of audience. The atmosphere, type, narrative, and forged of fresh-faced actors prompt that the Superman tale was once not just prepared for a makeover but additionally nonetheless correct for a post-9/11 American audience.

In The Smallville Chronicles: serious Essays at the tv Series, students research the a number of narratives of the Smallville universe. Addressing matters on the topic of gender, sexuality, nationwide identification, delusion, background, and politics, those essays discover how the sequence makes use of the Superman tale to touch upon modern social matters. extra essays examine the complicated courting the show's viewers has with the characters via running a blog, fan fiction, visits to filming destinations, and the construction of websites.

As the 1st book-length research in particular excited about the Smallville tv sequence, this assortment is a wonderful textual content for reviews in technological know-how fiction, fandom, and teenage tv scholarship, and it'll even have normal entice fanatics of the show.

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