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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Watchmen"”.
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"Who watches the watchmen?" Power Relationships in the Discworld Watch Series
This essay explores some chosen books from the popular Watch series written by Terry Pratchett in the period from 1994 to 2006 in order to analyze power relationships and the growth and character development of Samuel Vimes into a respected authority figure and a power-player of equal standing and …
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Crazier than Sack of Ferrets!: Deadpool as the Post-Watchmen Superhero
Watchmen has been hailed as revolutionary not only for the literary quality of Alan Moore's script and the precise execution of Dave Gibbon's art, but also for the novel's successful exploration of sophisticated subject matter and realistic moral conflict. Perhaps the most interesting question …
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Vigilantes, incorporated: an ideological economy of the superhero blockbuster
… different actors. The third chapter looks at Watchmen (Zack Snyder, 2009) as an example of a conglomerate’s attempt to convert a modernist, ""off-brand"" superhero comic book into a transmedia franchise. Although this film fared poorly at the box office, its release sent reprints of the 1987 …
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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
… concept were Alan Moore and Frank Miller. In <em>Watchmen</em> and <em>V for Vendetta</em>, Alan Moore presents his super anti-heroes as intellectuals whose missions are the transformation and disruption of a national status quo in order to foster a brighter future. In <em>Batman: The Dark Knight …
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The transient composer: rearrangement of pre-existing music in the film score
… on The Great Gatsby (Baz Luhrmann, 2013), Watchmen (Damon Lindelof, 2019) and Blade Runner 2049 (Denis Villeneuve 2017). While each of these examples incorporates rearrangement in nuanced, textually complex ways, even the most innocuous uses of rearrangement in recent films and television …
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Saint Mary's Mission (Mission City, British Columbia) 1861 to 1900
… on Sto:lo reserves. Ecclesiastically appointed watchmen recorded the names of transgressors against the Oblate "norms" of behaviour. No deviation was tolerated under this regime of surveillance and segregation. The thesis focuses on the Sto:lo children sent to the residential school at St. …
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Reverse Mission: African Christians in Cambridge London and Lagos
… the country; they view themselves as Christian watchmen announcing the impending arrival of terror attacks in Britain or an Islamic subjugation of Europe. Children are vanguards of these churches, which eagerly desire to encourage their youth to be formed as model Christian Britons capable of …
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Masculinity and The Plebeian Honour Fight: Dispute Resolution in Georgian England
… involved in the fight process, such as crowds, watchmen, constables, and those of the court are also examined. The behaviour of crowds reveals their important social role as regulators of the fair fight, while a resistance to an increase in authority’s regulation of public spaces is also noted. …
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Picturing the unspeakable: Trauma, memory, and visuality in contemporary comics
… looking at the Batman franchise and Alan Moore’s Watchmen and the crises—personal and historical, respectively—that they address. Chapter Three moves to the Rwandan genocide and its representation in both fictional and autobiographical comics, drawing together landscape, colonialism, and trauma. …