The Polish Superheroes Have Arrived!: On the Popularity of Superhero Stories and Adaptations by Emma Oki

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Gavaler, Chris, Superhero Comics by Katherine Marazi

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Ti-Girl Power: American Utopianism in the Queer Superhero Text by Matt Yockey

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Les merveilles du scepticisme : René Descartes et les superhéros de comics by Chris Gavaler, Nathaniel Goldberg

“…These ideas are constantly emerging in science fiction, especially in superhero comics. Thus, through various comic books, such as Marvelman or Heroes Reborn, the authors illustrate that not only the Cartesian sceptical worries are displayed in the narratives, but they also expand them and dispelled the solution to scepticism provided by Descartes.…”
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“Justice Has a Bad Side”: Figurations of Law and Justice in 21st-Century Superhero Movies by Nicole Maruo-Schröder

“…Superhero narratives have always been deeply entangled with questions of justice, and their characters, crisis situations, and narrative solutions have changed in close relationship with the socio-historic contexts they responded to. …”
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Debunking Marvel Comics’ First Pakistani-American Born Muslim Female Superhero: Reading Religion, Race and Gender in Ms. Marvel (Kamala Khan) by Johannes A Smit, Denzil Chetty

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

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Les Real Life Super Heroes by Éric Maigret

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A Critique on the Book The Song of the Nibelungenlied by Hamideh Behjat

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John Grisham’s Megabestsellers by Christine Evain

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Repensando los Héroes de la Antigüedad: Flash y la Recepción Clásica by Alejandro Cabrera Martínez

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The Circulation of Icons in Planetary - Pictures, Popular Culture and Materiality by Nicolas LABARRE, Laura PERNA, Errol RIVERA

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The Mining of Craft: An exploration of Minecraft as a Community of Inquiry by Miller Liam

“…Reading and Writing in any domain, whether it is law, rap songs, academic essays, superhero comics, or whatever, are not just ways of decoding print, they are also caught up with ways of doing things, thinking about things, valuing things, and interacting with other people – that is, they are caught up with different sorts of social practices. …”
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Just(ice) Smiling? Masks and Masking in the Occupy-Wall Street Protests by Andreas Beer

“…The essay investigates how the usage of the Guy Fawkes-mask, later associated with the comic superhero V, complicates binary logics of good and evil, arguing that such binary narratives helped in the organizational phase of the protests, but turned out to be inimical to further discussions of what constitutes social justice in the 21st century.…”
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Blockbuster de science-fiction : étendue, extension, morcellement du territoire by Gaspard Delon

“…The market share of science fiction cinema within North American production (difficult to assess because of the overlap between SF cinema, horror, disaster films or superhero films) is limited but significant and expanding, sometimes spectacularly, in the 2000s. …”
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Interview with Dirk Maggs, audio dramatist and co-creator of Audible’s The Sandman by Vikram Nijhawan

“…In 1993, Dirk Maggs, then a producer at BBC Radio 4, discovered Neil Gaiman’s Sandman comics and was captivated by their departure from the tropes of traditional superhero narratives popular at the time. Despite multiple rejections, Maggs persisted in pitching a Sandman radio drama, refining his craft through adaptations of Douglas Adams’ works and Gaiman’s Neverwhere. …”
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Hall of Heroes: A Digital Game for Social Skills Training with Young Adolescents by Melissa E. DeRosier, James M. Thomas

“…This paper describes the design and preliminary evaluation of Hall of Heroes, a digital game that presents SST through an engaging superhero-themed virtual story world. Participants were randomly assigned to complete the digital game (n = 15) or to a waitlist control condition (n = 14) and were compared on parent-report measures of social emotional functioning. …”
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Are adverse childhood experiences scores associated with heroism or villainy? A quantitative observational study of Marvel and DC Cinematic Universe characters. by Julia Wigmore, Bilal Ahmed, Gabriel Joaquino, Elke Jaibeeh Barah, Zahra Upal, Teressa Boring, Marika Lee, Eron Muel, Samantha Perry, Sandra Davidson, Carla Ginn, Carla Ferreira, Twyla Ens, Jennifer Jackson

“…Many superhero and villain stories include trauma, which could influence how the public perceives the impact of trauma in their own lives. …”
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Sistem Informasi Manajemen Proyek Berbasis Kanban (Studi Kasus: PT. XYZ) by Agung Sirajuddin Vidianto, Wachyu Hari Haji

“…XYZ merupakan sebuah perusahaan manufaktur peralatan rumah tangga dengan desain gambar tokoh kartun atau tokoh superhero berlisensi. Hal ini membuat PT. XYZ untuk mendesain bentuk produk dan bagaimana desain gambar decal atau stiker pada produk mengikuti tren di masyarakat sebelum tren tersebut berubah, sehingga setiap proyek desain yang harus diselesaikan sesegera mungkin. …”
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Prozaiczna codzienność superbohaterów, czyli analiza komiksowej serii Karla Ferdona by Justyna Czaja

“…The article discusses a parody comic series by Chilean cartoonist Karlo Ferdon which depicts American superheroes in prosaic day-to-day situations. The author shows how placing iconic pop culture characters in an unexpected context can lead to their deconstruction and demythologization.…”
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