Justin Edwards' Senior Project Blog

Week 2: This week Caroline and I watched all the films in phase two of the Marvel Cinematic Universe after previously watching Phase one of Marvel last week. Some of the movies that are in phase 2 of Marvel are Iron Man 3, Avengers age of Ultron, Captain America the Winter Soldier, and Guardians of the galaxy. The three goals we set in group one were to 1) Observe how the world at the time (cultural movements) affect the films, 2) Observe how the films affect the world around them, 3) Observe the total change in representation throughout the arc of creation within the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We decided to watch all of the movies in phase 2 while keeping these goals in mind.   (https://www.scpr.org/blogs/newmedia/2013/05/07/13562/why-comic-book-fans-hate-the-mandarin-in-iron-man/ ) While Watching Iron 3 we noticed like in the previous movies that there was a lack of good representation of women and people of color. This movie also did not pass the Bechdel test. There are har...

Hello, my name is Justin Edwards and I am working with Caroline Hyde on our senior project investigating the cultural impacts and representation of race and gender in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.  We chose this project as we both enjoy and are fascinated by films and television series in the Marvel Cinematic Universe. We also noticed that marvel has not always been the best with representation of people of color and women and we think it would be interesting to see how representation has evolved in the films and to discuss and write about it. Not to mention we both also took Tony, our mentors, Fighting the Power: African-American Film class, and thought that this project would allow us to expand on some of the aspects that we learned in that class. Marvel has four phases with movies and tv shows. Each week we will be watching one phase worth of movies. This week we watched phase one which consisted of: Iron man, Iron man 2, Captain America the first avenger, Incredible Hulk, and ...