Martin Flanagan is Lecturer in Film Studies at the University of Salford, UK, and previously led the BA in Film and Media Studies at University of Bolton, UK, from 2002-13. His work studies the forms of contemporary Hollywood entertainment, and he has explored the interface between Marvel comics and moving image media in "New Review of Film and Television Studies" and "Scope"; the collections "Web-spinning Heroics" (2012) and" Film and Comic Books" (2007); and in his monograph, "Bakhtin and the Movies: New Ways of Understanding Hollywood Film "(2009).