Add to ORKGSince the inception of comic books, superheroes have populated American households. These heroes, such as Superman, Batman, and Spider-Man, instill various values in youth. These values include honor, strength, and justice. Comic books have become a staple of America and have recently regained interest through film adaptations. These films reinforce the hegemonic masculinity and limited opportunities of women. While the comic books themselves also impose these themes, they also have begun to introduce LGBT themes into story lines and characters. However, these LGBT themes continuously get removed as the stories transform from comic book to film. The purpose of this thesis is to illustrate how traditional themes of hyper heterosexuality beco...
The theory of virtue ethics implies that filmmakers have a moral obligation to explore political the...
The DC Comics character of Dick Grayson (Robin and later Nightwing) has been subtextally coded queer...
The quintessential superhero is an American Monomyth; a figure who is selfless, cunning, and headstr...
Due to the increased interest and popularity of comic book movies and their original counterparts, I...
Despite traversing the fine line between homosocial and homosexual (Brooker, 2000) in his controvers...
Superheroes have always battled cultural anxieties and worked through grand morality tales, but thro...
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2003.Inclu...
(Statement of Responsibility) by Addison Allen(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 20...
In his The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Foucault demonstrates that since the 18th century, there ha...
Although Marvel and DC have been making comics since the 1930s, the recent boom in superhero films' ...
In his paper, Qu(e)erying Comic Book Culture and Representations of Sexuality in Wonder Woman, Bri...
With iconic characters like Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Iron Man representing the wider cultur...
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1987 "Watchmen" compilation has been described as a deconstruction of t...
In this dissertation, I argue that comic books are a form of dynamic and performative aesthetic comm...
This thesis analyses the representation of gender and its intersection with sexuality and race by ex...
The theory of virtue ethics implies that filmmakers have a moral obligation to explore political the...
The DC Comics character of Dick Grayson (Robin and later Nightwing) has been subtextally coded queer...
The quintessential superhero is an American Monomyth; a figure who is selfless, cunning, and headstr...
Due to the increased interest and popularity of comic book movies and their original counterparts, I...
Despite traversing the fine line between homosocial and homosexual (Brooker, 2000) in his controvers...
Superheroes have always battled cultural anxieties and worked through grand morality tales, but thro...
Thesis (S.M.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Comparative Media Studies, 2003.Inclu...
(Statement of Responsibility) by Addison Allen(Thesis) Thesis (B.A.) -- New College of Florida, 20...
In his The History of Sexuality, Vol. 1, Foucault demonstrates that since the 18th century, there ha...
Although Marvel and DC have been making comics since the 1930s, the recent boom in superhero films' ...
In his paper, Qu(e)erying Comic Book Culture and Representations of Sexuality in Wonder Woman, Bri...
With iconic characters like Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and Iron Man representing the wider cultur...
Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons' 1987 "Watchmen" compilation has been described as a deconstruction of t...
In this dissertation, I argue that comic books are a form of dynamic and performative aesthetic comm...
This thesis analyses the representation of gender and its intersection with sexuality and race by ex...
The theory of virtue ethics implies that filmmakers have a moral obligation to explore political the...
The DC Comics character of Dick Grayson (Robin and later Nightwing) has been subtextally coded queer...
The quintessential superhero is an American Monomyth; a figure who is selfless, cunning, and headstr...