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Showing 1 to 20 of 31 for “"Superheroes"”.
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Influence of Stereotyping and Prejudices on Perceptions of Superheroes
<p>Fictional superheroes possess characteristics that can be identified with on a human level (e.g., gender and race); however, their superhuman nature may lead them be evaluated as a distinct outgroup. The current study attempted to assess how racial and gender attitudes may affect perceptions of …
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Influence of Stereotyping and Prejudices on Perceptions of Superheroes
<p>Fictional superheroes possess characteristics that can be identified with on a human level (e.g., gender and race); however, their superhuman nature may lead them be evaluated as a distinct outgroup. The current study attempted to assess how racial and gender attitudes may affect perceptions of …
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Militarism, Security, and War: The Politics of Contemporary Hollywood Superheroes
… and contested elements, this project reveals superheroes as potential sites of political and ideological reflection, articulation, constitution, and transgression. This project demonstrates that a pop cultural/aesthetic approach to IR can enable critical practices that contribute to …
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Chasing Captain Canada: National Identity Challenged Through Superheroes In Canadian Comic Books
… to ask themselves if they have a need for superheroes, or if Canadian superheroes can only fill the roles of super defenders. The thesis examines the superheroes Nelvana from Adrian Dingle’s Nelvana of the Northern Lights (1941), Captain Canuck from Richard Comely’s Captain Canuck (1975), …
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Marked Superheroes and Villains: 21st Century Embodied Rhetorics of (Dis)Abilities and (Hyper)Masculinity
<p>I. Appeals of Multiple Masculinities: Maintaining Hegemonic Heteronormative 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> …
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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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The American Way: What Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men Reveal About America
Comic book superheroes have become adopted into American popular culture, and yet few have considered why these characters resonate with Americans. The first comic book superhero premiered in 1938 when Superman appeared on the cover of the first issue of Action Comics. For almost seventy years his …
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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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"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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Using Comic Books to Motivate Literacy Development in the Classroom
… are no longer just fantastical stories about superheroes vs. supervillains. They cover social aspects of current society. They make historical events come to life. They entertain, but can also teach. Comic books have a vast potential for classroom use. The intent of this paper is to identify …
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Vigilantes, incorporated: an ideological economy of the superhero blockbuster
… to their commercial roots, arguing that screen superheroes function as allegories of intellectual property. The hero's ""brand"" identity signifies stability, even as the character's corporate owners continually revise him (rarely her). Because young men spend the most on ancillary merchandise, …
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The Infinite Crisis: How the American Comic Book Has Been Shaped by War
… influences to global popular culture, with superheroes dominating nearly every popular art form. Yet, the academic world has often ignored the comic book medium as a niche market instead of integrated into the broader discussions on cultural production and conflict studies. This paper …
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It's a Bird! It's a Plane! It's...a Girl?!: Analyzing Representations of Femininity on The CW's Supergirl
… for instance, it has long been dominated by superheroes who are heterosexual cisgender men, creating a reputation of a sexist boy's club. Focusing on the CW's Supergirl, this thesis provides a snapshot of how women are fairing in superhero media in the mid-to-late 2010s. This snapshot …
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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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Pedagogy of Graphic Novels
… many years on shelves with comic books about superheroes and adventurers. They officially gained notoriety in 1992 with Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and at this time, critics and scholars began to take notice. However, graphic novels have not been fully adapted by academia. Graphic novels have the …
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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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Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
… 1961 and 2005. This project argues that the superheroes created during this era reflect major social and cultural upheavals that continue to reshape the postwar era; this includes the dawn of the Atomic Age as well as the rise of the Civil Rights movement, second-wave feminism, the sexual …
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The Quest for a Black Film Language: archives, sound and Black aesthetics in the context of The Black Radical Tradition.
Like superheroes, Black people seem to have an origin story – the moment when they realized that they were Black. This points to the fact that Blackness is a construct. There is a gap between how we perceive, or know ourselves to be, and what society deems us to be, or to put it differently, how …
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The Quest for a Black Film Language: archives, sound and Black aesthetics in the context of The Black Radical Tradition
Like superheroes, Black people seem to have an origin story – the moment when they realized that they were Black. This points to the fact that Blackness is a construct. There is a gap between how we perceive, or know ourselves to be, and what society deems us to be, or to put it differently, how …
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D. H. Lawrence and the 'Femme Fatale'
… female half, he must make his male characters superheroes, and the quasi-religious fanaticism of Ramon and Cipriano rings hollow. The attempt to appropriate for these heroes many of the traditional female strengths also leads to impossible contradictions, as does the declaration of the "phallic …
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