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The Masculine Masquerade of Superheroes in Watchmen

open access: yes, 2017
The image of many American male superheroes is always represented as being ‘phallic’ in their costumes. Even though it is a long-term reality that the representation of superheroes often connotes an ideally mythic but essentially un-realizable embodiment
Liu, Yen-Lian
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Divine Ontology and Multicultural Representation in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

open access: yesthersites. Journal for Transcultural Presences & Diachronic Identities from Antiquity to Date
The Marvel Cinematic Universe (‘MCU’) is one of the most lucrative entertainment franchises ever, and shapes the pop-cultural imagination to no small degree.
Maciej Paprocki   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Raiding the Superhero Wardrobe: A Review of The Superhero Costume – Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction

open access: yesThe Comics Grid: Journal of Comics Scholarship, 2018
The Superhero Costume – Identity and Disguise in Fact and Fiction, B. Brownie and D. Graydon, Bloomsbury Academic, 192 pages, 2016, 15 b/w images, ISBN: 978-1472595904 This review provides a costume designer’s reading of The Superhero Costume – Identity ...
Alke Groppel-Wegener
doaj   +2 more sources

Superheroes in Ancient Lore

open access: yes, 2019
A book about the connection between superheroes and the mythologies that inspired there creation.Purchase College SUNYVisual ArtsBachelor of ArtsKrach ...
Thomas, Caleb
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El superhombre y el superhéroe

open access: yesDios y el Hombre
¿Quién diría que las películas de superhéroes esconden grandes planteos filosóficos?, ¿cuán común es que los villanos sean favorables a políticas fuertemente edificadas sobre conceptos nietzscheanos?, ¿fueron conscientes los directores de que sus ...
Valentín García Lazzarini
doaj  

Flouting norms, forging identities: Queering of hypermasculinity in Marvel Cinematic Universe’s posthuman superhero pantheon

open access: yesSimulacra
This research explores the convergence and intersection of posthumanism and the queering of hypermasculinity as represented in the superhero bodies of the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
Prasenjit Panda   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Why the world needs superheroes

open access: yes, 2016
Superheroes were born in the United States in the late 1930s as a four-colour rebuttal to the misery of the Depression and the rise of fascism in Europe. Today, superheroes are no longer confined to America, or even the comic book page.
Liam Burke (18926788)
core   +1 more source

Miracles and Superheroes [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
We need miracles in this world, I’m convinced. That is, we need the shining forth of God’s power in this contested space that is the world. Posting about believing without seeing from In All Things - an online hub committed to the claim that the life ...
Schaap, Howard
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Batman as a Symptom: A Review of Rafael Carrión‑Arias’ “Batman and the Shadows of Modernity”

open access: yesГалактика медиа: журнал медиа исследований
This review examines Rafael Carrión-Arias' book “Batman and the Shadows of Modernity A Critical Genealogy on Contemporary Hero in the Age of Nihilism”.
Olesya S. Yakushenkova
doaj   +1 more source

Superhero

open access: yesCancer Research, Statistics, and Treatment, 2022
openaire   +1 more source

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