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Journal articles on the topic "Superhero studies"

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Geraffo, Monica. "No tights, no flights: Constructing the wardrobe of television superheroes." Film, Fashion & Consumption 10, no. 1 (April 1, 2021): 233–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/ffc_00022_1.

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Superheroes have always been defined by their dual lives, but analysis of the ways dress has informed characterization is often limited to just their superhero costumes, despite qualitative evidence that comic book heroes are depicted in civilian clothes at least half as often. Contemporary depictions of superheroes on television spend an even greater percentage of time dressed in civilian garments. This article combines both adaptation studies and industry studies approaches to discuss the overlooked influence of civilian clothing in conceiving the television superhero ‐ examining both comic book source materials and the process of costume design through the intrinsic constraints of industry television production. Through case studies into the DC comics Arrowverse, a series of interconnected programmes aired on the CW Network, and Marvel’s Runaways, the Hulu adaptation about teenage superheroes without costumes, as well as interviews with costume designers and actors, this article recognizes strong visual similarities across programmes between pseudo-character archetypes, and presents a de facto formula for analysing civilian superhero costume design. The resulting narrative reveals a struggle within superhero civilian costume design: finding the balance between serving semiotics or characterization, and building a sense of realism and individual choice within costuming choices from within hegemonic structures.
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Burt, Stephanie. "How to Write About Superheroes." American Literary History 32, no. 3 (2020): 598–608. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/alh/ajaa018.

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Abstract Eighty years after the first Superman comic, scholars are catching up to the importance, and to the popularity, of superheroes in comics and in other media. Recent monographs and edited collections examine racial politics, disabilities, other identities, and reception history across a range of decades and of superhero characters. Most of these worthy works remain within the limits of critique, judging the comics on how well they handle one or another theme; the result is a picture of superhero comics that cannot do justice to the genre. To them and to their like, the academic critics of the future might add—what vernacular comics critics already contribute—additional attention to what one or another character does best, to the transformative potential of even minor superhero work, and to how commercially produced superhero comics at their best handle narrative form. One superhero symbol can work many ways, as Neal Curtis’s examination of Truth and other Captain America stories shows: Cap has repeatedly fought off right-wing doubles, alternatively costumed versions of himself who aspired to make America white again.
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Andersen, Tem Frank. "Browsing the Origins of Comic Book Superheroes: Exploring WatchMojo.com as producers of video channel content." Nordisk Tidsskrift for Informationsvidenskab og Kulturformidling 6, no. 1 (November 22, 2017): 45–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.7146/ntik.v6i1.98956.

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This article tries to explore and explain the significance of comic book superheroes and their origin stories. The article presents an analysis of two selected case examples from the social video sharing site WatchMojo.com. The analysis focuses on four aspects or themes: Comic book hermeneutics, types of origin, subjectivization of superheroes, and user reactions. These analytical themes are based on an approach combining cultural semiotics, comic book superhero studies, studies in participatory culture, cultural studies and media user studies. The analysis provide some evidence to the claim, that superhero origin stories are of significance because its content is relevant to a dedicated number of internet users, and the video content both calls for and creates user reactions. Furthermore this interplay enacts the practice of categorizing and revitalizing as two important mechanisms vital for understanding this particular Internet video content.
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Hayes, A. D. R. "Jesus as a superhero?" Theology 117, no. 2 (February 13, 2014): 100–106. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0040571x13512963.

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Campos, Ricardo. "Graffiti writer as superhero." European Journal of Cultural Studies 16, no. 2 (March 26, 2013): 155–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1367549412467177.

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Kustritz, Anne. "Everyone has a secret: Closeting and secrecy from Smallville to The Flash, and from shame to algorithmic risk." Sexualities 23, no. 5-6 (May 30, 2019): 793–809. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1363460719850114.

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This article charts changes in the representation and encoding of superhero closeting metaphors from US television programs Smallville (2001–2011) to The Flash (2014–). Many theorists have noted that superheroes’ hidden secret identities resemble closeting. However, because of legal and social changes in LGBTQ acceptance, as well as intensification of the data-driven security state, closeting on The Flash connects to a fundamentally different set of algorithmic neoliberal social processes. As a result, The Flash portrays a form of post-shame closeting wherein secrecy is a practice of necessary self-defense against mechanized necropolitical violence and social erasure based on unpredictable data markers of risk.
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Pecina, Jozef. "The Shadow and the dual-identity avenger tradition in American popular fiction." Ars Aeterna 12, no. 1 (June 1, 2020): 63–71. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/aa-2020-0005.

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AbstractA secret identity is one of the definitional characteristics of comic-book superheroes. However, American popular literature had been populated by characters with secret identities long before the first superhero comics appeared. The crime-fighting dual-identity vigilantes enjoyed their heyday in the 1930s and 1940s, during the golden era of pulps. Selling usually for 10 cents, pulp magazines were the best source of cheap thrills and heroics. In this era, dozens of costumed avengers appeared and the most popular was undoubtedly The Shadow. Between 1931 and 1949, Street and Smith published more than three hundred stories featuring The Shadow, most of them written by Walter B. Gibson. In the late 1930s, several of the pulp conventions, including costumed avengers, were adopted by the creators of the superhero comic books, and The Shadow served as a main inspiration for Bill Finger’s and Bob Kane’s Batman. The article discusses the evolution of crime-fighting pulp heroes with a particular emphasis on The Shadow as the most influential dual-identity avenger of the era.
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Gavaler, Chris. "The Well-Born Superhero." Journal of American Culture 37, no. 2 (June 2014): 182–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jacc.12162.

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Peters, Timothy D. "Daredevil as Legal Emblem." Law, Technology and Humans 2, no. 2 (November 21, 2020): 198–226. http://dx.doi.org/10.5204/lthj.1656.

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This article draws together two trajectories of legal scholarship: the turn to the visual in legal studies and the emergence of the subfield of law and comics, or ‘graphic justice’. It does this via an analysis of superhero comics as fitting within a particular genealogy of the ius imaginum, or law of images. This is not to argue simply that superhero comics are dominated by narratives of law, justice and legality—they are—but rather that the very theatrical figure of the superhero and its encompassing of a dual persona is a presentation of a particular political theology of the image. The article analyses the way in which this political theology is rendered visible in Charles Soule’s Daredevil: Back in Black, highlighting the image of the superhero and its connection to both sovereignty and the biopolitics of personhood.
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Aino-Kaisa, Koistinen. "Gender and the superhero narrative." Journal of Gender Studies 28, no. 6 (May 20, 2019): 743–50. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09589236.2019.1617967.

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Superhero studies"

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Kim, Jiyeon. "A to Z of Superhero Movies." Scholarship @ Claremont, 2018. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/1934.

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This project explores the question of originality and appropriation in the creative world by using mashup video as a medium. How can old repetitive stories be deconstructed and transformed into something new? I have created alphabetically ordered montages of shots/scenes containing words/letters from superhero films. By doing so, I do not provide a concrete answer to what is really original in today’s world, but rather encourage the audience to actively participate in the viewing experience of the carefully structured ontology and see the infinite possibility of the modern-day mashup culture.
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Turner, Caleb. "Spectacular rhythms : cultural conflict in the contemporary superhero film." Thesis, University of Kent, 2016. https://kar.kent.ac.uk/55167/.

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This thesis proposes a new analytical perspective to the interplay between the entertaining escapism afforded by spectacular action sequences and the expression of cultural themes in the 2000s-present contemporary superhero film cycle. In the introduction I give a review of the spectacle and narrative debate to explain how current studies on popular action film have tended to primarily focus on the way spectacular displays support narrative progression by driving forward the film plot’s narrative chain of cause-and-effect over time. However, the review then explains that whenever the cultural themes invested in these action film narratives are concerned, there is often an assumption that thematic values only surface intermittently as symbolic motifs at certain moments, and so do not really benefit from this kind of storytelling momentum to the same extent. The introduction then sets up my claim that spectacle not only aids the progression of plot by energising narrative causality and temporal progression, but spectacle also contributes other rhythmically kinetic arcs of narration able to developmentally evolve thematic tales of cultural conflict, which I term as narrativised spectacle. I explain my method as one combining a genre theory framework to uncover the cultural contradictions invested in action narratives alongside a neoformalist analysis of the rhythmic components of physical motion, editing, framing, composition and digital visual effects that express these thematic tensions. Examples are then given to show why contemporary superhero films depend on such kinetic kinds of spectacular rhythm, and provide a key case study to work with. Each chapter finds evidence for my claim by analysing how different kinds of kinetic arc are generated by the audio-visual rhythms of spectacle: able to introduce, challenge, destabilise, conflate, reinstate and eventually reconcile a series of conflicting cultural themes akin to an evolving tale. In the first chapter I explore the physical and spatial spectacle of action sequences. In the second chapter I look at the melodramatic theatrics of performance techniques. In the third chapter I critically interrogate the violent action of the superhero film alongside the themes of masculinity invoked therein. In the final chapter I deal with superheroines. Although these heroines employ these same thematic rhythms as male superheroes, the kinetic arcs are noticeably far more interrupted, due to being burdened with themes of androcentrism. The conclusion then summarises exactly what narrativised spectacle contributes to existing debates on spectacle and narrative, and why it is particularly useful for studying the contemporary superhero-action film.
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Kirkpatrick, Ellen. "Recovering the radical promise of the superhero genre : transformation, representation, worldmaking." Thesis, Kingston University, 2017. http://eprints.kingston.ac.uk/40865/.

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This thesis responds to a question: if the Western mainstream superhero genre is so radical then why does it feel so reactionary in practice? The framing of this distinctive question points to the genre's ideologically unstable and contradictory meaningscape. Genre meaning is polysemous and shaped by official and unofficial meaning-makers, and yet, it routinely falls into duality. The genre tells, and facilitates, an astonishingly seamless tale of opposing ideologies. But, how? This thesis, innovatively maps this untheorised ideological divergence through three fronts: transformation, representation, and worldmaking. It is sited outside the conventional parameters of genre discourse and knowledge production. It makes several contributions to knowledge, as indicated below, and introduces some new terms and tools. It demonstrates, for instance, the value in reconceoptialising the concept of escape as 'e-scape' and worldmaking as 'world-un/making'. It asserts that genre meaning (and our perception of transformation) is shaped by a nexus of divergent forces: concept (how we think about it), representation (how we show/see it), and practice (how we do it). It draws the idea of 'promise' from Haraway (1992) and Cohen (2012) and institutes the idea that superheroes, as well as monsters, possess 'promise' (radical or otherwise). It reveals superheroic transformation as an omnipresent source of radicalism. It goes on to identify and theorise a disconnect between the (radical) concept of a superhero and its mainstream representation (conservative). It asserts that even though portraying transforming figures, superhero representation stays firmly within hegemonic lines, and it concludes that the radicalism of transformation, and superheroes, is lost in the telling. But it does not stop there; to do so would be to mark an area of the genre's meaning-map, 'Here Be Monsters'. Fans and audiences, particularly minority fans, are the final, critical, worldmaking element of this thesis. Whilst the genre talks about fantastic transformations, transgressive minority superhero fans perform them. This thesis illuminates continuing minority engagement with a beloved, but exclusionary and often hostile, genre. It reconceptualises this transgressive mode of textual engagement as a form of textual escapology, or 'texcapology'; a practice that not only keeps the genre 'alive' for excluded audiences and fans, but aids the recovery of the genre's lost radical promise. Theorising the genre's multivocal meaningscape allows the assertion that genre meaning is promissory rather than binary. This thesis asserts that genre meaning is a case of 'both/and' (radical and conservative) rather than 'either/or'. It concludes that the genre's unstable and contradictory meaningscape is itself a site of radical promise.
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Sheppard, Natalie R. "Invincible: Legacy and Propaganda in Superhero Comics." ScholarWorks@UNO, 2014. http://scholarworks.uno.edu/td/1943.

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Captain America and Iron Man are both iconic American heroes, representing different American values. Captain America was created during the Golden Age of comics and represents a longing for the past, while Iron Man was created at the height of the Cold War and looks forward to a new America. This paper will first establish the historical and cultural relationship between comic books and propaganda, beginning with the first appearance of Superman. It will pay special attention to the similarities and differences of Captain America and Iron Man, focusing on their representation of American values over time, and discuss how that aspect of the characters affects their ongoing titles today.
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Moore, Abigail. "With Great Power: A Narrative Analysis of Ethical Decisions in Superhero Films." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2019. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/558570.

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This study examines ethical decision-making processes as practiced by the cultural mythic hero of our time: the superhero. This study conducts a rhetorical narrative analysis of three key superhero films (The Dark Knight, Captain America: Civil War, Avengers: Infinity War) to locate moments when superhero characters make ethical decisions. The study evaluates their decision-making process using three ethical frameworks selected for their popularity in ethics courses as well as their relevance to the subject material; deontology, virtue ethics, and utilitarianism. Superheroes are famous for doing ‘the right thing’, and the purpose of this study is to determine to what degree these films function as an ethics education tool for the public which consumes them. In other words: do these films have a potential to instruct the viewer in answering ‘what is right’? This study looks closely at the ethical decision-making process in superhero films and determines the ways in which superhero films may indicate a potential for teaching ethical theory when these characters make the moral decisions for which they are famed. This study determined that utilitarianism and virtue ethics are both highly visible in superhero films, but rather than serving as a medium for learning, these films build and glorify a cult of personality. Ultimately, these films create messages which encourage the viewer to blindly accept ethical decisions made by the powerful, and to tolerate – and even crave – a tyrannical ruler. Because of the cultural impact these films have, a propagandistic message like this reaches millions of people, and it is vital to understand what the contents of that message are.
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O'Connor, Lauren R. "Trusty Teens: Reading American Adolescence through the Superhero Sidekick." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2019. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1555331330935278.

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Beemer, Lawrence W. "American Superhero Comics: Fractal Narrative and The New Deal." Ohio University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ohiou1303837053.

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Smith, Joshua Ryan. "Dick Grayson: Relatability, Catharsis, and the Positive Development of a Superhero." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1605268454563874.

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Pape, Anthony P. "Overdose: Constructing Television from the Cracks in the Superhero Content Conglomerate." Ohio University Honors Tutorial College / OhioLINK, 2021. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ouhonors162025124846866.

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Mason, Lizabeth Dutilly. "American Masculinity in Crisis: Trauma and Superhero Blockbusters." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2010. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1277140451.

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Books on the topic "Superhero studies"

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Brand champions: How superheroes bring brands to life. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2011.

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Paley, Vivian Gussin. Boys & girls: Superheroes in the doll corner. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1986.

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Writing superheroes: Contemporary childhood, popular culture, and classroom literacy. New York: Teachers College Press, 1997.

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Tsuburaya, Hideaki. Urutoraman ga naite iru: Tsuburaya Puro no shippai. Tōkyō-to Bunkyō-ku: Kōdansha, 2013.

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Joseph--God's Superhero (Discover 4 Yourself® Inductive Bible Studies for Kids). Harvest House Publishers, 2002.

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Arthur, Kay, and Janna Arndt. Joseph-God's Superhero: Genesis 37-50 (Discover 4 Yourself Inductive Bible Studies for Kids). Tandem Library, 2002.

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Blood Moon's Guide to Gay and Lesbian Film (Second Edition): Smashing Barriers, the Superhero As Gay Icon (Annual Film Guides). 2nd ed. Blood Moon Productions, Ltd, 2007.

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Reynolds, Richard. Superheroes (Cultural Studies). B.T. Batsford Ltd, 1992.

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Peaslee, Robert Moses, and Robert G. Weiner, eds. The Supervillain Reader. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496826466.001.0001.

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It’s been argued that every good superhero needs an equally compelling supervillain. The Supervillain Reader sheds light on why “it’s all about the villain.” The editors have assembled a collection of both reprinted and original essays that tries to answer the question, Why are we so fascinated with the villain in our storytelling? The obsession with the villain is not some new phenomenon, and in fact one finds villains who are “super” going as far back as ancient religious and mythological texts. This innovative collection brings together essays, book excerpts, and original content from a wide variety of scholars and writers, weaving a tapestry of thought regarding villains in all their manifestations, including film, literature, television, games, and, of course, comics and sequential art. While The Supervillain Readerfocuses on the latter, it goes beyond comic studies to show how the concept of the supervillain is part our larger historical and popular consciousness. The principal goal of this reader is to collect in a single volume articles that show how the villain is a complex part of any narrative regardless of original text. The villain must be compelling, stimulating, and pro-active, whereas the superhero (or protagonist) is most often re-active. Our reader brings into clear focus the unique aspects of villainy and shows why the villain is so compelling, while also providing a theoretical foundation for villainy in numerous media. The editors have carefully curated this collection, and we hope it will be of interest to professors teaching graduate and undergraduate courses, the students they teach, and serious observers of popular culture across professions.
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Marvel Studios Story: How a Failing Comic Book Publisher Became a Hollywood Superhero. HarperCollins Leadership, 2020.

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Book chapters on the topic "Superhero studies"

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Hyman, David. "The Practice of Revision in Composition Studies." In Revision and the Superhero Genre, 33–52. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-64759-3_3.

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Marion, Jonathan S., and James Scanlan. "Fashion and gender in superhero comics and films." In The Routledge Companion to Fashion Studies, 382–90. London: Routledge, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429264405-39.

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Andersson Hval, Ulrika. "The Superhero and the Tiger Mom: Examining the Relation Between Parental Expectations and Career Choices in Gene Luen Yang and Sonny Liew’s The Shadow Hero." In Engaging with Work in English Studies, 127–50. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-69720-4_6.

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Solozhenko, V. L. "Synthesis of Superhard Phases: In Situ Studies." In High-Pressure Crystallography, 411–28. Dordrecht: Springer Netherlands, 2004. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-2102-2_25.

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Ndalianis, Angela. "Female fans, female creators, and female superheroes." In The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies, 310–28. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY, 2020. | Series: Routledge companions to gender: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429264276-27.

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Enderwitz, Susanne. "“The 99”: Islamic Superheroes – A New Species?" In Transcultural Research – Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context, 83–95. Berlin, Heidelberg: Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18393-5_4.

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Brown, Jeffrey A. "Marriage, domesticity and superheroes (for better or worse)." In The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies, 78–89. Abingdon, Oxon; New York, NY, 2020. | Series: Routledge companions to gender: Routledge, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429264276-8.

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Bockting, Renée. "Kooperatives Lernen in heterogenen Lerngruppen. Eine qualitativ-empirische Studie in einer zehnten Klasse zum multimedialen Lernen am Beispiel von Anthony McCartens Superhero." In Deutschunterricht auf dem Prüfstand, 153–81. Wiesbaden: Springer Fachmedien Wiesbaden, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-24951-9_9.

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Samuels, Ellen. "Prosthetic Heroes." In Disability Media Studies. NYU Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.18574/nyu/9781479867820.003.0006.

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Ellen Samuels examines Iron Man 3 (Shane Black, 2013), arguing that this film’s representations of veterans and disability reflected the social context in which increasing numbers of disabled veterans were returning to the U.S., with their futures uncertain. Drawing on veterans’ longstanding cultural roles as “heroes” or “villains,” this superhero film ultimately positions cure as both violent and mandatory, suggesting little cultural tolerance for veterans’ ongoing disabilities (specifically, PTSD and amputations) and the resources that such conditions would require. Bringing a disability studies reading to a Hollywood blockbuster, this chapter demonstrates the pervasiveness and power of disability narratives.
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Peters, Timothy D. "Theological “Seeing” of Law." In Critical Directions in Comics Studies, 77–102. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496828996.003.0004.

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This chapter argues that comics involve a form of critical seeing—and, in particular, a critical seeing of law. It analyzes not just what it is that we see when we read or view comics, but a way of ‘seeing’ both law and the world ‘with’ comics. Drawing upon the work of Maurice Merleau-Ponty, the chapter begins to elaborate a phenomenological analysis of comics as encompassing this form of critical legal visuality through a reading of the superhero character Daredevil and his comics. It argues that Daredevil involves an intertwining of legal and theological accounts of the world, which is reflected in the formal aspects of the comics. It demonstrates how the theological ‘seeing with’ the comics form invokes a greater sense of encountering and experiencing the world as real, as actual and with which we should engage, involving a possibility of re-forming our approach to the law.
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Conference papers on the topic "Superhero studies"

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Baldock, Matthew, Wargha Peiman, Andrei Vincze, Rand Abdullah, Khalil Sidawi, and Igor Pioro. "Neutronics Studies on a Generic Pressure-Channel Reactor With Nuclear Steam Superheat." In 2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone22-30135.

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In order to increase the thermal efficiency of steam-cycle power plants it is necessary to achieve steam temperatures as high as possible. Current limiting factor for Nuclear Power Plants (NPPs) in achieving higher operating temperatures and, therefore, thermal efficiencies is pressures at which they can operate. From basic thermodynamics it is known that to increase further an outlet temperature in water-cooled reactors a pressure must also be increased. Current level of pressures in Pressurized Water Reactors (PWRs) is about 15–16 MPa. Therefore, next stage should be supercritical pressures, at least 23.5–25 MPa. However, such supercritical-water reactors with pressure vessels of 45–50 cm thickness don’t exist yet. One way around larger pressure vessels as well as the limit of temperature of the coolant on the saturation pressure is to employ a Pressure Channel (PCh) design with Superheated Steam channels (SHS). PCh reactors allow for different coolants and bundle configurations in one reactor core, in this case, steam would be a secondary coolant. In the 1960s and 1970s the USA and Soviet Union tested reactors using pressure channels to super-heat steam in-core to achieve outlet temperatures greater than what is currently possible with convention reactors. Nuclear materials are carefully chosen based on their neutron interaction properties in addition to their strength and resistance to corrosion. Introducing steam channels will not only change the neutronics behavior of the coolant, but require different fuel cladding and pressure-channel materials, specifically, stainless steels or Inconels, to withstand high-temperature steam. This paper will investigate the affect that steam, SS-304 and Inconel will have on neutron economy when introduced into a reactor design as well as required changes to fuel enrichment. It will also be necessary to investigate the effects of these material changes on power distribution inside a reactor. Pressure-channel design requires methods of fine control to maintain a balanced core-power distribution, the introduction of non-uniform coolant and reactor materials will further complicate maintaining uniform reactor power. The degree to which SHS channels will affect the power distribution is investigated in this paper.
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Patel, Viral K., and Jamal Seyed-Yagoobi. "Combined Electrohydrodynamic Conduction Pumping and Dielectrophoresis for Enhancement of Liquid Film Flow Boiling." In ASME 2015 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2015-53247.

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The research in this paper extends previous liquid film flow boiling studies by including the effect of an additional electrohydrodynamic (EHD) force, namely the dielectrophoretic (DEP) force. Rather than using only EHD conduction pumping of the liquid film to electro-wet the heater surface, a localized non-uniform electric field above the heater surface is also used to generate a dielectrophoretic force for improved vapor bubble extraction during the nucleate boiling regime. The effect of liquid film height and applied potential are studied as a function of heater superheat and heat flux. The study considers the sole and combined effect of DEP with EHD conduction pumping. A brief analytical study is also used to estimate the expected dielectrophoretic force magnitude and explain the results. All of the above studies are also used to quantify the enhancement in heat transfer that can be achieved when heat transport systems are driven or augmented by these electrohydrodynamic phenomena. The results show remarkable enhancement of up to 1217% in heat flux and boiling heat transfer coefficient for a given superheat when both mechanisms are used simultaneously. The experimental data are important for applications in thermal management in terrestrial and micro-gravity conditions.
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Okawa, Tomio, and Takahito Kamiya. "Experimental Studies on Pool Boiling Characteristics of Titanium Dioxide-Water Nano-Fluids." In 18th International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. ASMEDC, 2010. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone18-30157.

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It is known that dispersion of a small amount of nanometer-sized particles in liquid can cause substantial improvement of the critical heat flux in pool boiling. Nanofluids (colloidal suspensions of nanoparticles in a base fluid) may therefore be used as the coolant in industrial applications in which high-heat-flux removal is needed. If it is supposed that the deposition of nanoparticles onto the heated surface during nucleate boiling is the main cause of the CHF enhancement in nanofluids, a certain time period is considered to be necessary for the CHF to be improved. In view of this, preliminary experiments were performed in the present work to investigate the time scale of CHF improvement; here, distilled water was used as a base fluid, and TiO2 and copper were selected as the materials of nanoparticles and heated surface, respectively. Under a particular experimental conditions of nanoparticle concentration and nucleate boiling heat flux (40 mg/l and 500 kW/m2), an approximate time scale of CHF improvement was 10 min; this value might not be negligibly short in some nanofluid applications. The measured time-variations of the wall superheat during the nucleate boiling in nanofluid suggested that longer time periods are required for the CHF enhancement at lower heat fluxes and lower nanoparticle concentrations. In particular, 40 min was not sufficient for the wall superheat to reach a steady-state value at the lowest nanoparticle concentration of tested in this work (9 mg/l).
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Padilla, Jorge, and Van P. Carey. "Water Droplet Vaporization on Superhydrophilic Nanostructured Surfaces at High and Low Superheat." In ASME 2014 International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/imece2014-39957.

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This paper summarizes results of an experimental exploration of heat transfer during vaporization of a water droplet deposited on a superhydrophilic nanostructured surface at high and low superheat conditions. The superhydrophilic surface is composed of a vast array of zinc oxide (ZnO) nanostructures grown by hydrothermal synthesis on a smooth copper substrate. The individual nanostructures are randomly-oriented and have a mean diameter of about 400 nm, a mean length of 2 μm and a mean centerline spacing of about 700 nm. The macroscopic wetting characteristics of the surface were measured and scanning electron microscope imaging was used to document the nanoscale features of the surface before and after the experiments. These surfaces typically exhibited water contact angles less than 5 degrees. In single droplet deposition experiments at atmospheric pressure, a high-speed video camera was used to document the droplet-surface interaction, and the heat transfer coefficients were simultaneously determined from thermal measurements in the test apparatus. At low superheat levels (10–20°C), droplets spread rapidly over the heated surface when deposited. For these conditions, no bubble nucleation was observed, and we nevertheless observed extremely high heat transfer coefficients resulting from rapid evaporation of the thin liquid film formed by the spreading droplet. At high wall superheat levels, the vaporization process exhibited Leidenfrost droplet vaporization. The extreme wetting for these surfaces resulted in extremely high Leidenfrost transition temperatures. The results document a trend of increasing Leidenfrost temperature with decreasing contact angle, which is consistent with earlier studies. The results of this study are compared with early work in this area and the implications for applications are discussed.
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Recinella, Alyssa, Ankit Kalani, and Satish G. Kandlikar. "Enhanced Flow Boiling Heat Transfer Using Radial Microchannels." In ASME 2016 14th International Conference on Nanochannels, Microchannels, and Minichannels collocated with the ASME 2016 Heat Transfer Summer Conference and the ASME 2016 Fluids Engineering Division Summer Meeting. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icnmm2016-7975.

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Flow boiling has the ability to remove high heat fluxes while maintaining a low wall superheat. Various researchers have developed enhanced microchannel geometries to improve the heat transfer performance of the system. Recently, a number of new studies have used the increasing flow cross-sectional area concept to overcome flow instabilities and record high CHF. In this work, a new geometry is experimentally investigated utilizing a radial cross-section, which provides the increasing fluid flow cross-sectional area in the flow direction. The flow boiling performance is studied using radial microchannels and water as the working fluid. Four different flow rates ranging from 120–400 mL/min are studied for this new geometry. Heat transfer performance (boiling curve and heat transfer coefficient) and pressure drop characteristics are discussed for all flow rates. Furthermore, the work is supported by high speed visualization of the bubble dynamics. The boiling performance obtained is compared to the existing data in the literature.
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Pan, Zhiyun, Zhihu Sun, Zhi Xie, Junhua Xu, Isao Kojima, and Shiqiang Wei. "Lattice Defect of Interfacial Layer in Superhard TiN/Si3N4 Multilayer Films Studied by Fluorescence X-Ray Absorption Fine Structure." In X-RAY ABSORPTION FINE STRUCTURE - XAFS13: 13th International Conference. AIP, 2007. http://dx.doi.org/10.1063/1.2644555.

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Wang, Weiliang, Hai Zhang, Junfu Lv, Weidou Ni, Yongsheng Li, and Jianmin Liu. "A Study on Superheat Utilization of Extraction Steam in a 1000MW Double Reheat Ultra-Supercritical Unit." In ASME 2016 Power Conference collocated with the ASME 2016 10th International Conference on Energy Sustainability and the ASME 2016 14th International Conference on Fuel Cell Science, Engineering and Technology. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/power2016-59129.

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The world’s first 1000MW double reheat ultrasupercritical unit has been in operation since September 25th, 2015 in Taizhou, China. The thermal efficiency at turbine heat-rate acceptance (THA) condition is around 51%, which is the highest among all condensing units in coal-fired power plants around the world. However, the resultant superheat degree of the extraction steam is relatively high, leading to a large temperature difference in heat transfer process in the regenerative system, thereby a great exergy loss. In order to utilize the superheat of turbine bleeds more effectively, we present a scheme by employing an outer steam cooler (OSC) after the last high pressure heater in series to use the superheat to heat the feed water. Based on the newly installed unit in Taizhou, we examine the energy saving effect of the superheat utilization of different bleeds and their possible combinations respectively. The influencing factors of the mass flow rate, superheat, and effective superheat of the extraction steam are studied. Thermodynamic analyses revealed that the second extraction steam has not only high effective superheat, but also large mass flow rate, so in the overall efficiency improvement it ranks first and the third extraction steam ranks second. Although the fourth extraction steam has the largest superheat, it ranks third as the result of relatively lower mass flow rate. It was found that at nominal load, by adopting OSC’s to utilize the superheat of the second to sixth extraction steam, temperature of the feed water can increase by 8.1 °C, 3.5 °C, 2.6 °C, 1.1 °C, and 1 °C respectively, and the net coal consumption reduces by 0.73g/kWh, 0.47g/kWh, 0.40g/kWh, 0.21g/kWh and 0.22g/kWh accordingly. Consequently, three possible schemes are recommended for future design: one is to adopt one OSC to utilize the superheat of the second extraction steam, in return of 8.1°C increment in feed water temperature and 0.73g/kWh reduction of the net coal consumption; the second is to adopt two OSC’s to utilize the superheat of the second and third extraction steam at the same time, in return of 11.4 °C increment in feed water temperature and 1.21g/kWh reduction of the net coal consumption; and the last is to apply three OSC’s to utilize the superheat of the second to the fourth extraction steam simultaneously, to achieve 13.9°C increment in feed water temperature, and 1.62g/kWh reduction of the net coal consumption.
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Yabuki, Tomohide, and Osamu Nakabeppu. "Heat Transfer Characteristics of Isolated Bubble Nucleate Boiling of Water." In ASME/JSME 2011 8th Thermal Engineering Joint Conference. ASMEDC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/ajtec2011-44519.

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The mechanism of isolated bubble pool nucleate boiling of water is studied by a novel approach method using the developed MEMS thermal sensor. The local temperature variation beneath isolated bubble was measured using the MEMS sensor at different six wall superheats. Evaporation and dry-out of the microlayer and the rewetting of the dry-out area were obviously observed in the measured temperature variation. Wall heat transfer was numerically calculated by transient heat conduction simulation with the measured temperature as a surface boundary condition. The results showed that the microlayer evaporation transfers high heat flux of a few MW/m2, and dominantly contributes to the heat transport from the heating wall during the bubble growth phase. The ratio of the heat transferred from the wall to the latent heat in the bubble at the departure decreased with increasing wall superheat. In other words, the contribution of the heat transfer from the superheated liquid layer surrounding the bubble becomes important with increasing wall superheat. Moreover, the microlayer thickness was calculated by integrating the local heat flux. The derived initial thickness of the microlayer was independent from the wall superheat and became thick as distance from the nucleation site increases.
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Gedupudi, S., G. P. Cummins, H. Lin, A. J. Walton, K. Sefiane, T. G. Karayiannis, and D. B. R. Kenning. "Fabrication of Silicon Microchannel With Integrated Heater and Temperature Sensors for Flow Boiling Studies." In ASME 2008 First International Conference on Micro/Nanoscale Heat Transfer. ASMEDC, 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/mnht2008-52212.

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Two-phase microchannel heat sinks are a promising solution to meet the requirements for cooling electronic components with high-density heat dissipation. However, their design requires a thorough understanding of flow boiling and pressure drop in microchannels. The channels described in this paper have been fabricated in silicon, with rectangular cross-sections ranging in hydraulic diameter between 0.62 and 0.1 mm, for studies of boiling in single channels. To facilitate visualisation, the top of each channel is covered with Pyrex 7740, predrilled for fluid inlet and outlet connections. Integrated tantalum resistors are located uniformly along the bottom of the channel for temperature sensing. Tantalum pentoxide and PECVD silicon dioxide (which also conformally coats the channel walls) are used to electrically insulate the sensor from any liquid in the channel. The heater is an integrated aluminium serpentine track on the back of the bottom wafer. The channel is etched down to the sensors on the bonded bottom silicon wafer using the Bosch process. The objective related to the development of these silicon microchannels is to achieve heat fluxes of 2 MW m−2 with low, near-uniform wall superheat (by means of bubble triggering and artificial nucleation sites). Experiments will be carried out with mass fluxes varying from 100 to 500 kg m−2 s−1, using de-ionized water and an organic fluid as the working fluids.
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Pribaturin, Nikolay A., Eduard V. Usov, Ivan G. Kudashov, Marina E. Kuznetsova, Anton A. Butov, and Ivan S. Vozhakov. "Development and Verification Models of Vertical Stratification, Dryout and Slug Boiling of Superheated Sodium for LMFBR Safety Analyses." In 2014 22nd International Conference on Nuclear Engineering. American Society of Mechanical Engineers, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1115/icone22-30493.

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A new model which describes the dynamics of a vertically stratified flow correctly within the limits of a single-pressure two-fluid model has been developed. The model is based on the modification of finite-differences of convective terms and pressure gradients taking into account a distinct interface. We propose to use the vapor quality as a criterion for the onset of dryout. The choice of the criterion is based on the analysis of experimental and theoretical studies. To determine the boundary vapor quality we used the correlation xcr = 1.26·G0.2, which was found from experimental data fit. A review of articles has shown that for today it is impossible to predict correct superheat value. Therefore the superheat value was determined as a parameter of the model from the experimental data of a particular simulated experiment. Thus a boiling up regime was selected. The model described in this paper allows us to calculate the boiling up of sodium under the superheat conditions as well as problems of the evolution of the vapor volume. The verification of the models was done by using the SOCRAT-BN code [1]. SOCRAT-BN is a coupled code which consists of modules for calculation of damage and melting of a reactor’s core, thermohydraulic processes and neutron physics. The models of vertical stratification, dryout and slug boiling of superheated sodium are described in details in this paper. Also we present the results of verification for the models within analytic tests and experimental data.
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