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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"DC Comics"”.
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Life, The Multiverse, and Everything: How Crisis on Infinite Earths Changed DC Comics
Published from 1985 to 1986, DC Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths created the expectation that each crossover will result in numerous deaths and alter the structure or history of the DC Universe. Since many of these changes, such as the death of a popular or iconic character, cannot be sustained …
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How to Cope with Crisis: Examining the Regressive state of Comics through DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths
… watchers attempt to navigate the world of comics amid a staggering influx of content produced by both Marvel and DC Comics. This process of navigation is, of course, not without precedence: a similar phenomenon occurred during the 1980s in which new readers turned to the genre as superhero …
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Mask and closet ; or, "Under the Hood" : metaphors and representations of homosexuality in American superhero comics after 1985
… of male homosexuality in American superhero comics between the years 1986 and 2003. The thesis gives some theoretical attention to problems of epistemology, and the uses of connotative as opposed to denotative representation and reading. It traces the history of the discourse to the paranoia …
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Raised In A Shockwave
… The book is preceded by an analysis of the DC Comics cartoon <em>Static Shock,</em> one of my chief influences for this project. This analysis is focused on the ways the show handles ideas around marginalization, inhuman bodies, and heroic infrastructure.</p>
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Imaginary Women: Violence and the Postmodern Construction of Gender in DC's New 52
… violence against women in mainstream superhero comics still occurs in a different and more frequent manner than violence against men. This study uses examples from DC Comics "New 52” line, which involved a company-wide reboot of all characters and universes, to explore the inherently postmodern …
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Tempering Steel: Reapproaching the Mythos of Superman
… and frequently throughout the history of the DC Comics Universe: Must there be a Superman? In answering this question, this study seeks to seam together over sixty years of Superman to better understand the mythology associated with these narratives as well as their impact on American culture. …
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Narrowing the Margin: The Role of the Black Superhero
… artists, local comic retailers, and fans of comics on their favorite superheroes and their reasons for liking that particular hero to begin my analysis, and branched from there to texts written by the companies who own the superheroes and other anthropologists who have examined the role of …
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La recuperación de William Henry Hudson a través de las adaptaciones de Mansiones verdes y Allá lejos y hace tiempo
… cómics realizados por Classic Illustrated y DC Comics; y su breve incursión en los dibujos animados de Hanna-Barberá. La tercera parte se ha dedicado a las adaptaciones realizadas en Argentina de Allá lejos y hace tiempo (Far Away and Long Ago, 1918), una autobiografía que, pese a haber sido …
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Vigilantes, incorporated: an ideological economy of the superhero blockbuster
… comic books (sold by Time Warner subsidiary DC Comics), Nolan's films simultaneously address a mass audience that interprets them as a more self-contained texts, and a cult audience that interprets them as remixes and revues of familiar scenes and narrative elements, often decades old. …