For at least three reasons, Marvel's 2021 TV adaptation of its 1977 What If? series of comics
seemed all too familiar to feminist legal scholars as a methodological exercise in alternative …

Close readings of popular culture texts can illuminate the complexities of the narratives of
law and justice that influence our legal imaginary, and provide a means for re-reading our …

Recently, the US has seen a rise in misogynistic and race-based violence perpetrated by
men expressing a sense of grievance, from" incels" to alt-right activists. Grounding …

For the last twenty years, superheroes have been enjoying a crest of popularity due to a
seemingly never-ending series of movies and television shows that mine decades of comic …

Much has been written on how science fiction allows us to interrogate imagined societal
changes and potential yet-tobe realised futures. It also allows those who consume such texts …

This compilation of essential information on 100 superheroes from comic book issues,
various print and online references, and scholarly analyses provides readers all of the …

This paper engages in a cultural legal reading of the character Frank Castle (aka 'the
Punisher') as rendered in Netflix's Daredevil (2015–2018) and The Punisher (2017–2019) …

The main focus of this thesis is to offer new insight into the portrayal of female superheroes
in comic books and the ways in which they highlight important feminist issues. I have divided …

As author-driven stories enter the realm of interactive narratives and provide interactors with
freedom of choice in narrative paths and endings, this often happens at the character …

Science fiction allows us to interrogate imagined societal changes and potential, not yet-
realised futures. 1 Since the earliest development of the genre, imagined dystopian futures …