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Comics on Film: Cinematic Ambition Meets Visual Artistry in 'Black Panther'


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It seems these days that a lot of particularly cynical film critics, and even a fair amount of audience members, roll their collective eyes whenever a movie with "Marvel Studios" emblazoned on its poster hits theaters. For so many people who attribute the cultural downfall of cinematic art to the onslaught of superhero movies, the nebulously defined "Marvel movie" in these peoples' rhetorical playbook is supposedly just like every other one that has come out over the past decade. Nevermind the fact that critics and audiences were legitimately taken with efforts like Iron Man, Captain America: The Winter Soldier, Thor: Ragnarok, or Guardians of the Galaxy as unique movie-going experiences, each with an emotional core, through-lines...
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