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Showing 1 to 20 of 57 for “"Superhero"”.
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Is Superman a Sense or a Superhero?
This paper discusses the puzzle introduced by Jennifer Saul, which involves swapping coreferential proper names in simple sentences such as (1) Benito dresses as Clark Kent, and (1*) Benito dresses as Superman. While the traditional Frege's puzzle suggests that such substitutions do not change the …
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Batman and the superhero fairytale: deconstructing a revisionist crisis
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Narrowing the Margin: The Role of the Black Superhero
… used to seeing it.”<a title="">[1]</a></p> <p> Superheroes have a strong influence in our society, and as such we should look at the messages they represent. To this end, I have examined the roles of African American characters by understanding their history before and after the induction of an …
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Superhero Healthcare: Graphic Medicine, Genre and Public Education Comics
This thesis has created a new sub-genre Superhero Healthcare and has tracked its development and its potential as a pedagogical resource. This study argues that the sub-genre stems from both graphic medicine and the superhero genres and has progressed through uncovering the long, forgotten history …
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Vigilantes, incorporated: an ideological economy of the superhero blockbuster
"Since 2000, the comic-book superhero blockbuster has become Hollywood's most salient genre. ""Heroes, Incorporated: A Political Economy of the Superhero Blockbuster"" examines these seemingly reactionary fantasies of American power, analyzing their role in transmedia storytelling for a …
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Big Screen Heroes with Paper Voices: A Superhero Adaptation Research Essay
<p>Superheroes may have taken over your phone, tablet, and television screens through the endless adaptations that pelt us from upon high mouse-shaped ears, but their rich history goes back much further than that; they have gripped the public imagination since their creation in comic strips …
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Crazier than Sack of Ferrets!: Deadpool as the Post-Watchmen Superhero
… But for Moore's Watchmen, we find that even superheroes are corruptible, flawed, imperfect, and even (more than) a little crazy. In the wake of what is arguably one of the most influential superhero novels published to date, the comics industry saw a rise in the popularity of anti-heroes like …
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Turning The Page: Fandoms, Multimodality, And The Transformation Of The 'comic Book' Superhero
<p>Superheroes are increasingly becoming more affiliated with film media than comic books. The amount of revenue generated, the formation of new fans, and the interests of comic publishers’ parent companies all suggest that superhero film adaptations are the medium most associated with the …
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Sounding super: Examining aspects of music and sound design in American superhero media
Submission original under an indefinite embargo labeled 'Open Access'. The submission was exported from vireo on 2023-09-01 without embargo terms
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"Racially Charged": Negotiating Black Politics on the Superhero TV Adaptation, Black Lightning
… as a case study of the representation of Black superheroes in comic book television adaptations. By focusing on the three main superheroes Jefferson Pierce/Black Lightning; Anissa Pierce/Thunder/Black Bird; and Jennifer Pierce/Lightning, this project examines the ways in which the show relies on …
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How to be a superhero: stories of creating a culture of inclusion through theatre
… to their professional performance of How to be a Superhero: A Guide to Saving the World. Supplementary projects with Hijinx Theatre in Lesotho and the Oasis Association in South Africa provide stories of igniting hidden talents and overcoming the obstacles that create barriers to inclusion in both …
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Mask and closet ; or, "Under the Hood" : metaphors and representations of homosexuality in American superhero comics after 1985
… representation 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 …
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Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
… the operation of embodied multiplicities within superhero comics from the postwar era using the example of comics produced by the Marvel group between 1961 and 2005. This project argues that the superheroes created during this era reflect major social and cultural upheavals that continue to …
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Imaginary Women: Violence and the Postmodern Construction of Gender in DC's New 52
… forms of violence has been intertwined with superhero comic books since the genre's inception. In 1999, comic book author and industry insider Gail Simone called attention to the genre's tendency to injure, cripple, kill, or disempower its female characters, oftentimes in order to advance the …
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Marked Superheroes and Villains: 21st Century Embodied Rhetorics of (Dis)Abilities and (Hyper)Masculinity
… Masculinity in the 21st Century Comic Superhero Adaptation <em>Arrow</em></p> <p>II. Marked Bodies: Physicalist Manifestations of Superhero Strength, Character Evolution, and Mental and Emotional Dis/Abilities</p> <p>III. Savage! Vanished! Appropriated!: Misrepresentations of Native …
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Militarism, Security, and War: The Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Superheroes
… the early 21st century, the fictional Hollywood superhero, and asks what it does for us to take seriously that which is often deemed frivolous entertainment. Understanding the superhero as a political entity in and of itself, this project reveals the mutually constitutive relationship between its …
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Chasing Captain Canada: National Identity Challenged Through Superheroes In Canadian Comic Books
… the connections between nationalism and the superheroic effigy in domestically produced Canadian superhero comics, with an eye on how Indigenous superhero comics published within Canada may enrich or complicate this landscape. Domestically produced comics and/or graphic novels are defined in …
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Reading "The uncanny X-Men" : gender, race, and the mutant metaphor in a popular narrative
The first superhero comic book was published in 1938 and since that time the genre has become a staple of American popular culture. While superhero stories have been adapted into every popular storytelling medium, the genre is most closely associated with the comic book industry. This dissertation …
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