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Showing 1 to 20 of 27 for “"Batman"”.
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Mythic Symbols of Batman
<p>Batman has become a fixture in the popular consciousness of America. Since his first publication in Detective Comics #27 in 1939, he has never ceased publication, appearing in multiple titles every month as well as successfully transitioning into other media such as film and television. A …
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Frá Bjólfi til Batman: Drekabanar í gegnum tíðina
… fortíðar og einn helsta drekabana nútímans; Batman. Markmiðið ritgerðarinnar er að athuga sameiginleg einkenni þeirra, minni og samfélagsleg skilaboð. Ritgerðinni er skipt upp í þrjá hluta; fyrst er rannsóknarsaga þjóðsagnafræðinnar rakin, helstu fræðimenn hennar taldir upp og kenningar …
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Batmen : Konstruktionen der Heldenfigur „Batman“ im intermedialen Kontext.
Die Heldenfigur „Batman“ ist ein variables Konstrukt, das im Verlauf der letzten 70 Jahre beständigen Wandlungsprozessen unterlag und sich noch immer entwickelt. In Form eines diachronen Vergleichs werden die Filme „Batman hält die Welt in Atem“ von 1966 und „Batman Begins“ aus dem Jahr 2005 …
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Batman and the superhero fairytale: deconstructing a revisionist crisis
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Achilles and The Batman on the Plane of Immanence: Deconstructing Heroic Models
<p>Achilles and The Batman on the Plane of Immanence: Deconstructing Heroic Models attempts to reposition the way the reader views literary heroism. By defining heroism as a reaction to forces within and external to his society, heroism becomes a function of Michel Foucault’s concept of Otherness. …
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The Many Myths of Batman: A Rhetorical Analysis of The Dark Knight Returns
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Married to the cape: Adam West, Batman and signature roles on the small screen
… the titular role in the television series Batman (ABC: 1966-1968), which became a worldwide phenomenon after its debut in 1966. Despite its initial popularity, Batman was cancelled after three seasons and West was unable to develop a lasting career as a mainstream leading man, meaning that …
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The American Way: What Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men Reveal About America
… costumed heroes have been continually published. Batman soon joined Superman as a popular costumed crime-fighter, and the early 1960s saw another generation of superheroes created that would be embraced in American culture. Among this new group of heroes were Spider-Man and the X-Men, who have …
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Narrative Epic and New Media: The Totalizing Spaces of Postmodernity in The Wire, Batman, and The Legend of Zelda
… drama The Wire (2002–2008); works adapted from Batman comics, specifically the Dark Knight film trilogy (2005–2012) and the Batman: Arkham video game series (2009–2015); and Nintendo’s Legend of Zelda video game series (1986-2013). Related books, films, comics, and video games furnish supporting …
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Aplicación de comunicación móvil mediante teléfonos celulares a través de Wifi
… en modo Adhoc y la instalación del protocolo BATMAN. Los dispositivos móviles a utilizar son tres: HTC Dream, Huawei Ideos U8150 y el Huawei M835, estos trabajan bajo la plataforma Android
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A Wonder Whose Origin is not Known: The Importance of the Orphan Hero in Otherworldly Film
… the hero in American culture. The three heroes (Batman, Anakin Skywalker, and Harry Potter) represent certain aspects of orphan heroes: the capacity for sacrifice and the need to resist focusing on oneself. The type of hero each becomes has its source in the response he takes to his orphanhood. …
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Stairway to Autonomy: Hierarchical Decision-Making for LLM-Guided Planning, Bandit-Driven Exploration, and Multi-Agent Navigation
… environment. Our mid-level exploration strategy, BaTMaN (Banditbased Tracking and Monitoring and Navigation), systematically prioritizes waypoints that maximize information gain while balancing real-world constraints such as energy efficiency and sensor reliability. Finally, InforMARL provides a …
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Vigilantes, incorporated: an ideological economy of the superhero blockbuster
… them. The second chapter examines Time Warner's Batman films directed by Christopher Nolan, arguing that they dramatize the work of bricolage involved in making a commercial brand. Producers assemble blockbuster movies from disparate sources, and each movie in turn becomes a new source from which …
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Narrowing the Margin: The Role of the Black Superhero
… with Daredevil too, man. It’s like, I write Batman all the time, in Justice League, where he’s hanging out with seven guys who, by any logic, should be able to you know, eat his lunch without even working up a sweat. And he’s constantly outmaneuvering them, and outfighting them and …
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A Bloody Yesteryear and a Brighter Tomorrow: Late Cold War Anti-Heroes in the 1980s Graphic Novels of Alan Moore and Frank Miller
… quo in order to foster a brighter future. In <em>Batman: The Dark Knight Returns</em> and <em>Daredevil: Born Again</em>, Frank Miller presents his reinvented super anti-heroes as scions of a previous age (the World War II generation) who act as teachers and exemplars of violent resistance to the …
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Mask and closet ; or, "Under the Hood" : metaphors and representations of homosexuality in American superhero comics after 1985
… which has led to an anxiety about "the gay-Batman reading" that has affected the shape of the genre's evolution. In Part One, the thesis examines the ways in which superhero comics have historically discussed homosexuality, using metaphors or symbolic "tropes," which variously imagine the …
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Performing belonging: meeting on and in the earth
… Creek in Melbourne. This spot is where John Batman probably met with Wurundjeri elders on June 6th 1835, with the aim of negotiating a treaty for the buying of 500,000 acres of their land. When I walk along the Merri Creek I feel that it is in some way ‘mine’, but know that this is only the …
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Innovative representations of trauma: trauma in popular culture
… of Haruhi Suzumiya (2006-9), Tim Burton’s Batman Returns (1992), David Lynch and Mark Frost’s television series Twin Peaks (1990-91) and its prequel Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992), Team Salvato’s Doki Doki Literature Club and Toby Fox’s Undertale. The general position taken is that …
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From Villain to Hero: Traces of the Gothic Villain/Hero in Four Modern Films
… This definition will be applied to the the films Batman, Darkman, Edward Scissorhands, and Cape Fear.</p><p>In the course of this application, it will be seen that although the villain has evolved into a Gothic hero, and the setting has moved closer to the "here and now" than in the early Gothic, …
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