Marvel universe at the top, with superheroes you win - Lifestyle

The Falcon and the Winter Soldier

is the most viewed series on the Disney + platform, and updates Marvel's audiovisual hits: from the global

beating Avatar for the most watched movie record ever, to the new

series

, the first live-action of the Studios.

At the center, and key to the great popularity of millions of fans but also of newbies, is the

and that further expands its borders, in continuous crossovers, mixes, ultra spinoffs.

"This is precisely the key to the success of comics and now of Marvel's cine and TV productions: we think by worlds or rather universes, without fences with characters jumping from one side to the other, infinitely multiplying the narrative capacity. this wraps the reader / viewer like a spiral, you never get out of it! What has been a brilliant and pioneering idea since the 1960s has now become a trend in the cinema that is also accepted by Hollywood, because it represents hybrid and inclusive current events "Diego Del Pozzo, journalist and historian of cinema and audiovisuals, told ANSA.

He retraced its history and analyzed its cultural, linguistic and productive characteristics, starting from the comic book origins up to the current transmedia developments, in an essay that these days arrives in bookstores and online stores.

Published by CentoAutori in the Pop & Cult series, the book (288 pages, 16.50 euros) is entitled Marvel Cinematic Universe, with a preface by the media sociologist Gino Frezza, one of the leading Italian scholars of the relationship between comics and audiovisuals.

Based on the superhero adventures of the American publisher

, the Marvel Cinematic Universe so far consists of

made between 2008 and 2019, with a single maxi-plot that unites them from chapter to chapter and, at the same time, it already launches them into the future.

The films are flanked by

television

, distributed through traditional networks such as ABC or streaming platforms such as Netflix, Hulu and now and increasingly Disney +.

With merchandising of gigantic proportions.

All these audiovisual products, thanks also to the firepower of Disney, which in 2009 bought Marvel and its characters for 4 billion dollars, "have changed the audiovisual industry by setting new global records, making the superhero genre a true phenomenon. mass and redefining the characteristics of the Hollywood blockbuster in a serial and transmedia sense ".

Since Disney also acquired Fox (72 billion dollars), Marvel characters that previously were not available for Mickey Mouse's house such as the

have also gathered

For fanatics, the news of the future will be right in the entrance. in the great universe of these missing carachters for new incredible narrative intersections.

After all, the roads to follow are endless: it is news these days, from the set in London of

by Sam Rahimi with Benedict Cumberbatch that Wanda of Wandavision or

n, will be the female protagonist.

Del Pozzo's book traces the roots, origins and development of this unique audiovisual phenomenon, up to its definitive consecration, highlighting its peculiar linguistic and cultural characteristics, without forgetting the primary medium from which it all began, comics, in the States United of the thirties and forties of the twentieth century and then with the release in 1961 of the epochal first issue of Fantastic Four, the book used by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby to lay the foundations of the Marvel comic universe, which has grown over the decades thanks to unforgettable characters such as the Fantastic Four themselves, Spider-Man, Hulk, Captain America, the X-Men, Daredevil, the Avengers and many others, capable of revolutionizing contemporary pop culture.

"Already in the early days of the comics the characters crossed each other continuously and were affected by the era - he adds -: if it had snowed regularly in New York, you would find the event within the month's issue, to give just one example, but since 2008 under the guidance of producer

, today one of the most powerful men in the film industry, all this has been transferred and exalted to the cinema with films that have become world blockbusters ".

The dream of fans eager to see the new films (

, the black widow Scarlett Johannson and

, The Eternals directed by Chloe Zhao, above all) and new series announced, is a pike crossover: Marvel Universe + Star Wars , but for now it remains so.