[Comicsstudiessociety] Book for review for IJOCA - "With Great Power: How Spider-Man Conquered Hollywood during the Golden Age of Comic Book Blockbusters"

[Mike Rhode]

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With Great Power How Spider-Man Conquered Hollywood during the Golden Age
of Comic Book Blockbusters By Sean O'Connell]

Worldwide, via ebook, hardcopy available in US. Send me a note directly
saying why you'd want to review it and would be a good fit.


Mike Rhode

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Applause is proud to announce the November 2022 release of *With Great
Power* (320 pages • 978-1-4930-6619-3 • $26.95 • Hardback) by *Sean
O'Connell*. If Hollywood had a superhero throne, Spider-Man would be
perched upon it. As the most popular superhero in the world, the
web-slinger plays a pivotal role in three of the six highest-grossing film
franchises in history: the Marvel Cinematic Universe; the *Avengers*
quadrilogy; and the *Spider-Man* movies themselves.

Spidey has come a long way since Marvel guru Stan Lee first concocted him
in 1962, but until now his cinematic journey has not been fully documented.
The wall-crawler’s history in Hollywood is a saga filled with failed
attempts, behind-the-scenes squabbles, franchise reboots, corporate
intrigue, and a host of A-list names—including, of course, stars Tobey
Maguire, Andrew Garfield, and Tom Holland. *With Great Power *is a lively
and memorable account of the character’s rise to box-office supremacy,
revealing how his movies continue to influence the comic-book adaptations
being made today. Drawing on exclusive access to and extensive interviews
with directors, actors, producers, and screenwriters, veteran film reporter
and author Sean O'Connell here gives the inside scoop on how Spider-Man
clambered his way to the top of Hollywood’s superhero heap.

*Sean O'Connell *is the managing director of CinemaBlend, a globally
recognized and industry-respected entertainment news website. He has been
covering the film industry since 1999, and his byline has appeared in *USA
Today*, *The Washington Post*, and Fandango.


Sean grew up on Marvel Comics and is a Spider-Man aficionado who covered
all eight Spider-Man films during every phase of production. Since 2016,
Sean has been able to file reports from the international film sets of
both *Spider-Man:
Homecoming* and *Spider-Man: Far from Home*.
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