« Never Meet Your Heroes ». Généalogie cinématographique et matrice science-fictionnelle dans The Boys by Thomas Carrier-Lafleur, Baptiste Creps

“…The starting point of this reflection lies in the paradigmatic shift embodied by The Boys, following the cinema of Zack Snyder (Watchmen, 2009 and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, 2016), which consists in proposing a realistic rereading of the mythologies of the superhero, whose traditional model is thus strongly criticized, even deconstructed. …”
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“Justice Has a Bad Side”: Figurations of Law and Justice in 21st-Century Superhero Movies by Nicole Maruo-Schröder

“…Analyzing Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, and Captain America: Civil War (all released in 2016) in terms of genre, narrative as well as characters and their symbolic implications, the article shows how the films comment in ambiguous, even contradictory ways on the current terrain of justice. …”
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