Matt Yockey

Matt Yockey is an Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Toledo. He is the author of Batman (TV Milestones) (Wayne State University Press, 2014) and the editor of Make Ours Marvel: Media Convergence and a Comics Universe (University of Texas Press, 2017).

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2January 27, 2017<February 4, 2017

Excelsior: Reaching Toward Utopia in Marvel’s New York

Matt Yockey

In the first response, Matt Yockey argues Marvel links the superhero to the urban, and to New York City in particular, through affect-inducing strategies that belie both Marvel's, and the city's, "ever upward" aspirations.

no. 1, Roundtables, vol. 2January 19, 2017<January 20, 2017

Black Metropolis: The Embodied City in Luke Cage

Matt Yockey

When Marvel's iconic Power Man became Netflix's Luke Cage, the character's bullet-proof black body retained his relevance, and the urban space he occupied became even more important.