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Saptanto, Deswandito Dwi, and Maya Kurnia Dewi. "Gundala and Gatotkaca in the concept of modern Indonesian superheroes: Comparative analysis of the Indonesian and American superheroes." EduLite: Journal of English Education, Literature and Culture 5, no. 1 (February 29, 2020): 136. http://dx.doi.org/10.30659/e.5.1.136-147.

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The superhero universe has always been an attraction in the world of film industry. The birth of superhuman ideas has made people increasingly interested in taking the storyline. This research is a literature study on the existence of a new world in Indonesian cinema that takes the theme of Indonesia's superhero universe competes against the universe of American superheroes. The purpose of this study is to compare Indonesian and American superhero films in order to understand the complete concept of depicting Indonesian superheroes in the process of switching from comics to films comparing with the same concepts in American superheroes. This study employed a descriptive qualitative method by comparing films from the Indonesian superhero universe namely Bumilangit Cinematic Universe and Jagad Satria Dewa Cinematic Universe compared to the American superhero universe namely Marvel Cinematic Universe and DC Cinematic Universe. The results obtained that there were some similarities in the process of character formation in each of the heroes that were created, this could be described with similarity in multiple personalities before and after becoming superheroes, costumes worn, storylines and special effects produced in the film. There were fundamental differences that were seen in the background of Indonesian culture that was different from the concept of American culture. Indonesian superheroes also highlighted Pencak Silat as the original identity and characteristics of Indonesia. This research concluded that a story with a superhero concept had the same story pattern such as a person with a superhero alter ego and deep with heroic storyline even though they were presented by different countries.
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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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Smylie, Mark A., and Jonathan Eckert. "Beyond superheroes and advocacy." Educational Management Administration & Leadership 46, no. 4 (March 6, 2017): 556–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1741143217694893.

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This article introduces new perspectives, principles and recommendations for the successful development of teacher leadership. It draws from literature on teacher leadership, work redesign, and on-the-job leadership development to explore key insights and questions for teacher leadership development, and it presents a conceptual–theoretical model to guide the practice of teacher leadership development. The article concludes with implications for promoting such practice.
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Baruna Ariesta, I. Gusti Bagus Bayu, Made Vairagya Yogantari, and Anak Agung Ngurah Bagus Kesuma Yudha. "KAJIAN SEMIOTIKA PADA VISUALISASI TOKOH ALL MIGHT DALAM MANGA BOKU NO HERO ACADEMIA SEBAGAI REPRESENTASI SUPERHERO AMERIKA." Jurnal Nawala Visual 1, no. 2 (October 29, 2019): 108–12. http://dx.doi.org/10.35886/nawalavisual.v1i2.40.

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Delivering a story through visual comic characters can make it easier for readers to understand the contents and distinguish one character from another. Not only as a distinguishing element, but visualization of comic characters can represent areas where the visual is commonly used and found. In the comic titled Boku No Hero Academia (BNHA) found elements and terms that are commonly found in comics and American superhero characters in general, one of them through the All Might character. Through qualitative research methods, with data collection techniques through observation, literature, and internet studies, this paper aims to examine how the characters of All Might represent American superheroes through his visuals.
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Martin, Justin. "Medijske pripovijedi o superherojima kao potencijalni kontekst za istraživanje dječjega razumijevanja moralno relevantnih događaja." Libri et liberi 12, no. 1 (September 1, 2023): 11–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.21066/carcl.libri.12.1.1.

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Currently, superhero films are one of the more popular film genres, and the genre does not appear to be slowing down anytime soon. In addition, the lives and exploits of superheroes are told through other forms of media such as animated films and television series targeted towards children. However, these narratives are also violent. If older children (i.e., approximately 7–11) engage with superhero media, then it is important to understand the ways they attempt to make sense of this genre. To this end, the essay examines how superhero media may serve as a potential context for older children’s understanding of morally relevant events. This potential—based on three broad areas of scholarship on children’s capacities for understanding others and their morally relevant acts—is explored along two dimensions. The first is through common narrative features of the genre, and the second is through research implications. It is suggested that a research program utilizing the genre’s narrative features as a part of a methodology to investigate older children’s understanding of morally relevant acts affords unique opportunities to build upon existing scholarship on the relationship between media content and children’s moral understanding.
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Gallardo, Ximena. "Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes." Journal of Popular Culture 38, no. 6 (November 2005): 1109–11. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1540-5931.2005.00183.x.

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Hidayatullah, Danial. "HOMER SIMPSON: PROTOTIPE SUPERHERO BARU AMERIKA." Adabiyyāt: Jurnal Bahasa dan Sastra 8, no. 1 (July 31, 2009): 171. http://dx.doi.org/10.14421/ajbs.2009.08109.

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Hollywood films as one of America’s prominent industries that influence world’s popular culture can be seen as a cultural discourse. Movie as a popular literature conveys it message in its own unique ways. Myth is one of its messages. This study tries to reconstruct the myth of popular American superhero through an interesting new movie: The Simpsons. How the new type of hero is manifested is analyzed in this study to find out the continuities or changes in American’s collective dreams so that the new American perspective over heroic mythologies can be understood. Basically this study analyzes as well the possibilities of the meanings conveyed by the media. Textual analysis is conducted to understand not only the meanings of the myth of the superhero perceived by the audience but also the American characters inside the myth. The Simpsons seems to offer a new type of hero’s myth, which is very distinct from the previous type of popular superheroes as in Batman, Superman, or Spiderman.
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Shoemaker, Deanna. "Mamafesto! (Why Superheroes Wear Capes)." Text and Performance Quarterly 31, no. 2 (April 2011): 190–202. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/10462937.2010.551138.

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Voelker-Morris, Robert, and Julie Voelker-Morris. "Stuck in tights: mainstream superhero comics’ habitual limitations on social constructions of male superheroes." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics 5, no. 1 (January 2, 2014): 101–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2014.889732.

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Curtis, Neal. "Superheroes and the contradiction of sovereignty." Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics 4, no. 2 (December 2013): 209–22. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/21504857.2013.803993.

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Van, de Water Wesley Colin. "The Bat and the Spider: A Folkloristic Analysis of Comic Book Narratives." DigitalCommons@USU, 2016. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/4870.

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This thesis examines and argues that superhero narratives, beginning with their comic book origins in the early twentieth century, exhibit many of the qualities found in folklore. Furthermore, these narratives not only demonstrate a folkloric evolution across multi-media formats, including printed work, television, and film, but that they fit within classic hero narrative structures posited by various folklore theorists. The hero theories presented by Lord Raglan, Vladimir Propp, and Joseph Campbell, along with traditional folklore patterns of dynamism and conservatism discussed by Barre Toelken, Alan Dundes, and others, support the assertion that folklore can, and does, exist and propagate in the mass media popular culture sphere. What follows is an academic analysis of core folklore elements, as well as a presentation of how these core qualities can be found in superhero narratives, and how the discipline of folklore may benefit from a study of these narratives.
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Mims, Sarah E. "The first adventure of Raspberry and Lime : a futuristic screenplay /." View online, 2009. http://repository.eiu.edu/theses/docs/32211131559243.pdf.

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Hubbard, Ariel Elizabeth. "Stagnant Supers: Amplifying the Superhero Genre Through Novelistic Maturity." BYU ScholarsArchive, 2018. https://scholarsarchive.byu.edu/etd/6755.

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Few superhero scholars, if any, are discussing physical age or definitions of maturity. It seems Hollywood and consumers are reluctant to associate "adult" content with anything other than pornography, immature language, and excessive violence—a reluctance that should be explored by scholars and critics alike. Most superhero characters only reflect the insecurities of audiences who are currently undergoing the transition between adolescence and young adulthood. There are very few older, middle-aged, or retired superheroes depicted juggling the demands of a family along with their daring rescues. It is possible that superhero films could continue to enjoy longer, lasting success if they include more than the previously targeted immature audience. Live-action superhero films can target all ages more efficiently by avoiding the static "mature" audience narratives and presenting relatable and realistic adulthood with novelistic maturity along with adolescence and childhood.
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Zarate, Tabitha Rose-Ann. "UTILIZING VISUAL RHETORIC: A NEW APPROACH TO COMICS, SUPERHEROES, AND RED SUNS." CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2019. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd/827.

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Comics and graphic texts require complex engagement from readers, engagement that relies on a developed understanding of text and image, and how they interact to create meaning. There are several theories about how readers engage with comics, many from comic creators themselves, and some from scholars in literature and composition. This project introduces an approach to comics utilizing visual rhetoric, which reconsiders the stricter text/image dynamics often conceptualized in Comics Studies, includes the reader as creator, and explores comics as collaboratively created texts. This approach is applied to Superman: Red Son, a popular text that focuses in on Superman, and Cold War politics, producing a critical conversation about American and Russian relations and their influences in a global context. This project has several goals: to legitimize the superhero comic as a place of important cultural power, to show the collaborative nature of comics, placing writers and artists in equal standing to the work they produce, and to introduce the reader as creator.
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Bavlnka, Timothy. "Superheroes and Shamanism: Magic and Participation in the Comics of Grant Morrison." Bowling Green State University / OhioLINK, 2011. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=bgsu1302288940.

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Söderström, Gardevåg Rebecka. "Challenging Adamant Norms : An analysis of the portrayal of childhood and gender in the Handbook for Superheroes books." Thesis, Linköpings universitet, Tema Barn, 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:liu:diva-160208.

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Children’s literature is one of many important influences of childhood socialization and teaches children about contemporary society. Therefore, it is important to understand what messages children’s literature convey. In this thesis, I analyze four contemporary, Swedish graphic novels, aimed at children between the ages of six and nine years old. My research questions are: how do the studied books portray children and childhood? And how do the books portray the intersectional positions of girlhood and boyhood? To gather and analyze my data, I used close reading and thematic analysis. This process resulted in three themes, which I call: ‘a child in need of protection or the competent child’, ‘the gender-neutral superhero or the gendered superhero’ and ‘constructing girlhood and boyhood’. The results show that the books depict children in two ways; either as dependent and vulnerable or as competent agents. This relates to traditional, developmental understandings of children as well as understandings of children as formulated by the new paradigm for the study of childhood. Moreover, the results problematize the role of the superhero, specifically the ways in which the books explicitly gender the superhero in the text and portrays what could either be interpreted as a gender-neutral or an implicitly masculine superhero in the illustrations. Finally, the results indicate that the books depict girlhood and boyhood as contrasting identities. In conclusion, the authors of the books seem interested in challenging conventional norms regarding children and childhood, in line with a larger trend among Swedish children’s literature. At the same time, the books also convey traditional norms regarding both girlhood and boyhood, such as by the clear markers of age and gender in the illustrations.
Barnlitteratur är en av många viktiga influenser på barndomssocialisation och lär barn om det samtida samhället. Därför är det viktigt att förstå vilka budskap som barnlitteratur förmedlar. I denna uppsats analyserar jag fyra samtida svenska grafiska noveller riktade till barn mellan sex och nio år. Mina frågeställningar är: hur skildrar de studerade böckerna barn och barndom? Och hur skildrar böckerna de intersektionella positionerna flickskap och pojkskap? För att samla in och analysera min data har jag använt mig av närläsning och tematisk analys. Denna process resulterade i tre teman som jag kallar: ’ett barn i behov av skydd eller det kompetenta barnet’, ’den genusneutrala superhjälten eller den könade hjälten’ och ’att konstruera flickskap och pojkskap’. Resultaten visar att böckerna skildrar barn på två sätt: antingen som utsatta och i beroendeställning eller som kompetenta agenter. Dessa relaterar till traditionella, utvecklingsmässiga förståelser av barn liksom förståelser av barn så som de formulerats av det nya paradigmet för studiet av barndom. Dessutom problematiserar resultaten superhjälterollen, specifikt det sätt på vilket böckerna explicit könar superhjälten i text och porträtterar vad som antingen kan tolkas som en genusneutral eller en implicit maskulin superhjälte i illustrationerna. Till sist så indikerar resultaten att böckerna skildrar flickskap och pojkskap som kontrasterande identiteter. Sammanfattningsvis så verkar författarna av böckerna intresserade av att utmana konventionella normer rörande barn och barndom, i linje med en större trend bland svenska barnböcker. Samtidigt så skildrar böckerna också traditionella normer gällande både flickskap och pojkskap, så som genom de tydliga markörerna för ålder och genus i illustrationerna.
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Kilbourne, Kylee. "With Great Power: Examining the Representation and Empowerment of Women in DC and Marvel Comics." Digital Commons @ East Tennessee State University, 2017. https://dc.etsu.edu/honors/433.

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Throughout history, comic books and the media they inspire have reflected modern society as it changes and grows. But women’s roles in comics have often been diminished as they become victims, damsels in distress, and sidekicks. This thesis explores the problems that female characters often face in comic books, but it also shows the positive representation that new creators have introduced over the years. This project is a genealogy, in which the development of the empowered superwoman is traced in modern age comic books. This discussion includes the characters of Kamala Khan, Harley Quinn, Gwen Stacy, and Barbara Gordon and charts how these four women have been empowered and disempowered throughout their comic canon. It rejects the lens of postfeminism and suggests that an intersectional feminism is still needed in today’s ever-evolving and diversifying world. Popular culture must be representative of everyone, and today’s women authors will be the driving force of diversity in comic books.
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Welty, Justin. "Superfriends for Life: An Analysis of the Relantionship Between the DC Comics "Trinity" in the "New 52" Justice League." Digital Commons @ Butler University, 2017. https://digitalcommons.butler.edu/grtheses/490.

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The focus of this thesis is to look at Geoff John's Justice League in the "New 52" universe. More specifically, the research concentrates on the relationship of the members of DC Comics "Trinity," Batman, Superman, and Wonder Woman. The three heroes have a special relationship that spans over 75 years, and now, with the "New 52," there is an opportunity to examine the relationship from its beginning to its end in the modern era of comic book history. The scope of this project will span eight graphic novels and five years of storytelling. To properly evaluate the relationship of "The Trinity" this thesis will look at research on friendship, interpersonal relationships, and management styles, all through the lens of a thorough character study on each hero. In the end, "The Trinity" will grow from uneasy allies to friends to family. They will solidify their relationship through fighting for their lives, making mistakes together, and ultimately saying goodbye to each other. This thesis will find their relationship is unique amongst comic book characters and should be considered the archetype for all the superhero teams that would come after their creation. Moving forward, to build upon this research one should take the analysis approach followed in this thesis and apply it to either the "Rebirth" version of the Justice League or the 2017 Justice League film which also will feature a version of "The Trinity"
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Hutton, Zina. "Queering The Clown Prince of Crime: A Look at Queer Stereotypes as Signifiers In DC Comics’ The Joker." FIU Digital Commons, 2018. https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/etd/3702.

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The goal of this thesis is to explore the way heterosexism and homophobia are present in the coding that has created an implied and monstrous queer identity for the Joker, present in many versions of the character over the past forty years. Through close readings of several of the Joker’s most iconic appearances, queer theory texts, and analytical essays on pop culture, this paper will analyze the use of queer signifiers present in the comics and the way that these portrayals of the Joker are rife with harmful and heterocentric perceptions of what comic creators have seen as necessary signifiers for queerness. Additionally, I will be using knowledge gleaned from my own preexisting work with fan and cultural studies in order to talk about the way that this portrayal of the Joker has been developed within fandom/fan communities and how it is continually replicated in superhero media.
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McWilliams, Ora C. ""Hey Batman, what are your parents getting you for Christmas?" the orphan narrative and non-traditional families in American superhero publications /." Bowling Green, Ohio : Bowling Green State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc%5Fnum=bgsu1245711175.

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Books on the topic "Superheroes in literature"

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ill, Jael, ed. Superheroes. New York, N.Y: Kidsbooks, 2002.

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Limited, Dynamo, ed. Superheroes. New York, NY: Gareth Stevens Publishing, 2015.

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Savery, Annabel. Superheroes. London: Franklin Watts, 2011.

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Savery, Annabel. Superheroes. London: Franklin Watts, 2013.

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Richard, Jones. Manga superheroes. New York: PowerKids Press, 2013.

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S, Pagnucci Gian, ed. Enter the superheroes: American values, culture, and the canon of superhero literature. Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, Inc., 2013.

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McPherson, Darwin. Comic book superheroes. Lincolnwood, IL: Publications International, 1994.

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Ryan, Davidson, ed. The law of superheroes. New York: Gotham Books, 2012.

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ill, Jael, ed. How to draw more superheroes. Chicago, IL: Kidsbooks, Inc., 1996.

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E, Weinberg Robert, ed. The science of superheroes. Hoboken, N.J: J. Wiley, 2002.

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Book chapters on the topic "Superheroes in literature"

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Westermann, Edward B. "X-Men at Auschwitz? Superheroes, Nazis, and the Holocaust." In The Palgrave Handbook of Holocaust Literature and Culture, 593–613. Cham: Springer International Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-33428-4_32.

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Unceta Gómez, Luis. "From Hero to Superhero." In IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 1–17. Amsterdam: John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1075/ivitra.23.c1.

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Torres, Francisco L. "Deconstructing the Superhero." In Engaging with Multicultural YA Literature in the Secondary Classroom, 162–70. New York, NY : Routledge, 2019.: Routledge, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9780429053191-17.

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Madan, Anuja. "Child Hanuman and the politics of being a superhero." In The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature, 269–79. Abingdon, Oxon; New York: Routledge, 2017. |: Routledge, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.4324/9781315771663-28.

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"4. Statuesque Cinema: Adapting Literature, Animating Film." In Love, Sex, Gender, and Superheroes, 123–52. Rutgers University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.36019/9781978825291-006.

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Bendall, Mark J. "Film and Superheroes as a Pedagogic Tool." In Teaching Literature and Language Through Multimodal Texts, 22–34. IGI Global, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.4018/978-1-5225-5796-8.ch002.

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Hollywood film has a mass-market and global appeal. As such it is already well received and known by many learners and offers a method to build from this into more sophisticated theoretical concepts. The chapter makes the case for film as a viable and valuable teaching strategy. In an environment where many are visual learners, film offers a multisensory pedagogic tool which can draw students away from the handheld mobile devices which often compete for attention with the lecturer. It also notes the risks in film and answers potential objections. Then it applies these broader pedagogic concerns to the specific case of superhero films, and how it can illuminate complex terminology in social sciences, such as polysemy, inter-textuality, sociopolitics, psychopolitics, cultural and visual criminology. Other concepts discussed include notions of the denotative and the connotative, and the metonym. Questions of identity, gender, nation, and liminality are included.
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Villarreal, Benjamin J. "Truth, Justice, and the Victorian Way: How Comics and Superheroes Might Subvert Student Reading of Classic Literature." In With Great Power Comes Great Pedagogy, 135–48. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496826046.003.0009.

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This chapter explores theories informing and attempting the use of comics and their themes to help College English students make sense of Victorian literature and the challenges that offers. Through classroom examples, this chapter explores how studying the similarities between Victorian literature, modern comics, and superheroes would support a better understanding of the workings of both. At the same time, this work cautions that a literary analysis of these genres’ differences can demonstrate the pitfalls of such an approach as well.
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Plasa, Carl. "Icon -versations: F. Douglas Brown, Jacob Lawrence and Frederick Douglass." In Literature, Art and Slavery, 166–207. Edinburgh University Press, 2023. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748683543.003.0007.

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Like its predecessor, this chapter is exclusively devoted to African American ekphrasis and American slavery, taking F. Douglas Brown’s Icon (2018) as its field of inquiry. This small-press collection is notable for the culturally diverse mix of poetic genres it deploys (Kundiman, Golden Shovel, erasure, ghazal and of course ekphrasis, inter alia); its use of the Japanese presentational mode of PechaKucha; and its eclectic play of allusion, which runs a dizzying gamut from the Annunciation pictures of the Italian Renaissance to comic-book superheroes and from popular African American dance-styles to the film musicals of the 1950s. In thematic terms, Icon is partly concerned with contemporary African American experience, encompassing topics as heterogeneous as the transgenerational dynamics of Brown’s own family relationships and the violent deaths of African Americans either in or as a consequence of police custody. Its overriding orientation, however, is not towards images produced from a white American perspective (as featured in Chapter Five) but the work of the African American painter Jacob Lawrence and specifically, his Frederick Douglass series of 1938-9, created when Lawrence was between twenty-one and twenty-two years of age and it is this conversation between Brown and Lawrence that is at the chapter’s heart.
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Holdier, A. G. "Dividing Lines." In The Supervillain Reader, 3–11. University Press of Mississippi, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496826466.003.0001.

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If you are interested in supervillains – or, for that matter, their wretched, do-good counterparts, the superheroes – then The Supervillain Readeris for you. Bringing together essays related to film, history, literature, and contemporary comics, The Supervillain Reader takes an interdisciplinary, multi-media approach to examining the deep history and current status of the supervillain. From witches, Darth Vader, and Voldemort, to The Kingpin, Cobra, and Bizarro, the evolution of the bad guy is an exciting, often surprising one, and the articles collected here – some new, some classics in the field – engage with the trope’s most pressing and central issues and offer the best possible starting point for supervillain studies.
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"SUPERHERO OR BUNGLER?:." In Literature and Inequality, 179–98. Anthem Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvs09r74.17.

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Conference papers on the topic "Superheroes in literature"

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Budiharjo, Bayu. "English in Subscene’s Indonesian Subtitle of Superhero Movie: How does It Affect the Audience?" In Proceedings of the UNNES International Conference on English Language Teaching, Literature, and Translation (ELTLT 2018). Paris, France: Atlantis Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.2991/eltlt-18.2019.4.

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Бережна, Маргарита Василівна. The Traitor Psycholinguistic Archetype. Premier Publishing, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.31812/123456789/6051.

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Film studies have recently begun to employ Jung’s concept of archetypes prototypical characters which play the role of blueprint in constructing clear-cut characters. New typologies of archetype characters appear to reflect the changes in the constantly developing world of literature, theater, film, comics and other forms of entertainment. Among those, there is the classification of forty-five master characters by V. Schmidt , which is the basis for defining the character’s archetype in the present article. The aim of the research is to identify the elements of the psycholinguistic image of Justin Hammer in the superhero film Iron Man 2 based on the Marvel Comics and directed by Jon Favreau (2010). The task consists of three stages, namely identification of the psychological characteristics of the character, subsequent determination of Hammer’s archetype and definition of speech elements that reveal the character’s psychological image. This paper explores 92 Hammer’s turns of dialogues in the film. According to V. Schmidt’s classification, Hammer belongs to the Traitor archetype, which is a villainous representation of the Businessman archetype.
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