Terence McSweeneyTerence McSweeney is a senior lecturer in film and television studies at Solent University, UK. He is widely recognised as one of the leading writers on contemporary American cinema. He has held research posts at the University of Oxford and te London School of Economics, UK. He is the author of American Film and the Culture Wars (Bloomsbury, 2026), The Contemporary Superhero Film (Short Cuts) (2020), Avengers Assemble! Critical Perspectives on the Marvel Cinematic Universe (2018), and The War on Terror and American Film: ‘9/11 Frames per Second’ (2014). Terence’s book, Black Panther: Interrogating a Cultural Phenomenon (2021), won the Congrès Interdisciplinaire d’Etudes Africaines (COAFRO) Award for Best Book on African Studies (2021), a Non-Fiction Authors Association Gold Award (2022), an eLit Gold Award in the category of Popular Culture (2022), a National Indie Excellence Award (2022), and an American Book Fest Award (2022). Read More Read Less