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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"superhero comics"”.
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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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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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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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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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Expectations across entertainment media
… expectations are demonstrated via a study of the superhero comics serials 52 and Civil War.
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"The Eye Is The Window for the Soul:" Essays on the American Anti-Comics Movement
For almost twenty years, from the advent of superhero comics in 1939 to the end of the 1950s, comic books were a profound cultural phenomenon in midcentury America. Millions of Americans read comics, child and adult alike, but comics retained a perception as a medium consumed primarily by children. …
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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 …