Editorial: Superheroes and villains: engagement, effects, and empowerment [PDF]
Frontiers in PsychologyJulia Kneer +2 more
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Superheroes as Monsters as Teachers as Monsters as Superheroes
Journal of Curriculum Theorizing, 2019 Superheroes offer a promise of not only a better tomorrow, but better versions that we, as humans, can be. They represent the epoch of our evolution, and as demonstrated by their continued popularity, it is a promise that speaks to many of us directly.
Gabriel Huddleston
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With a Great Story Comes Great Responsibility: Role of Narrative in Leadership Development. [PDF]
New Dir Stud LeadershABSTRACT Comic books reside uniquely within American culture. Historians have contended comics are more than just sequential artwork mixed with engaging stories, but rather, a framework by which the generations make sense of who they are. These stories are a reflection of cultural conscience; a lens through which we can view the world and a mirror ...
Connable S.
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Smells like beam spirit — a radiotherapy multiverse of (super) humans in white coats: seven radiotherapy phenotypes that suggest we may be closer to superheroes than we think [PDF]
Reports of Practical Oncology and RadiotherapyBACKGROUND: Radiotherapy is a technically precise yet deeply human medical specialty, often underrepresented in narrative depictions of oncology. Like modern superhero stories, radiotherapy practice blends idealism, responsibility, moral ambiguity, and ...
Angel Montero +3 more
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DiGeSt: Journal of Diversity and Gender Studies, 2021 Since the new millennium, there has been a remarkable increase in audio-visual adaptations of superhero comic books (Garcia-Escriva, 2018). Whereas these adaptations used to include predominantly male superheroes, they have started to feature more female
Maxine De Wulf Helskens
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Analysis of Superheroes in Shahnameh (Based on Semantic Contradictions in the Structures of the Gilbert-era Imagination System) [PDF]
Matn/Pizhūhī-i Adabī, 2023 In Shahnameh, there are superheroes who are separated from the human context of the narratives and are placed on higher levels, but their common features and selfishness connect them to each other and to the body of the narrative.
Elham Saadat, Ishaq Toghyani
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Los superhéroes ante los tribunales
Via Inveniendi Et Iudicandi, 2023 El presente artículo es el primer informe de la investigación “Impacto de los superhéroes en la construcción de la cultura jurídica”, que aborda los distintos escenarios jurídicos que involucran las acciones de los superhéroes teniendo en cuenta ...
Luis Alfonso Fajardo Sánchez
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Argentina in Crisis: Superheroes in Zenitram (2010) and Kryptonita (2015)
Галактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований, 2020 While the study of superheroes has become a comprehensive field in itself, a focus on global superheroes has only recently begun to take shape. Vinodh Venkatesh’s Capitán Latinoamérica: Superheroes in Cinema, Television, and Web Series (2020) furthers a ...
Vinodh Venkatesh
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Elisions & Illusions of Queerness: What Sacrifices Are Made in Appeals to a Mass Audience?
Annales Universitatis Paedagogicae Cracoviensis. Studia de Cultura, 2021 This paper examines the impact of sacrificing queerness when adapting comics into films, which cater to wider audiences – specifically, queer elision in Ryan Coogler’s Black Panther (2018) and illusions of queerness in Patty Jenkins’ Wonder Woman (2017).
Frances Tuoriniemi
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