This chapter examines the visual representations of the terrorist attacks in New York,
London and Oslo to critical analysis through the lens of a cultural and visual victimology. It …

Joseph Michael Sommers is Assistant Professor of English at Central Michigan University,
where he teaches courses in children's and young adult literature, pop culture, and assorted …

The author presents an argument on finding creative gestures in comic mediums and the
creations that argue against the insecurity discourses that have emerged related to the …

This chapter provides an overview of different forms of representations of sleeper agents in
Hollywood cinema. The analyzed examples constitute a broad spectrum that is divided in …

Würde man eine repräsentative Umfrage machen, welche Konnotationen sich mit den
Termini› Superhelden‹ und› Superheldinnen‹ verbinden, dann stände die Perspektive auf …

Both Minority Report (Spielberg, 2002) and V for Vendetta (McTeigue, 2006), released in the
immediate post-9/11 period, resonate with issues pertaining to the socio-cultural and …

Würde man eine repräsentative Umfrage machen, welche Konnotationen sich mit den
Termini› Superhelden‹ und› Superheldinnen‹ verbinden, dann stände die Perspektive auf …

Some critics have declared postmodernism to be over and are speaking of “post-
postmodernism,” a new era generally associated with a “turn to the human”(Timmer) and …

From its creation in the late 1930s onwards, the figure of the superhero has become
increasingly ambiguous and problematic. Especially in two crucial periods of recent history …

Sažetak Despite the moderate success of their predecessors produced during the 1970s
and the 1980s, superhero films effectively began to dominate the silver screen and shatter …