James Gilmore

James N. Gilmore is a Ph.D. Candidate in Indiana University’s Department of Communication and Culture. He is the co-editor of Superhero Synergies: Comic Book Characters Go Digital (Rowman & Littlefield, 2014), and his work has been published in Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, New Media & Society, TV & New Media, and elsewhere.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2February 2, 2017<February 4, 2017

Assembling an Entry Point: Notes on Navigating the Superhero Genre

James Gilmore

In this final response, James Gilmore suggests that the vastness of the superhero genre defies generalizations and instead requires scholars to take situated "entry points" to the genre.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2January 23, 2017<January 23, 2017

Rediscovering Bodies in Pain on Marvel’s Netflix Shows

James Gilmore

Netflix's Marvel line-up of shows are transmediated texts that encourage us to ponder whose bodies matter, and how they matter, in the contemporary city.