Les Real Life Super Heroes by Éric Maigret

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

“…This article proposes to study The Boys (Prime Video, 2019-in production) from a genealogical approach that will shed light on the series' cinematic legacy, with a particular emphasis on its science fictional matrix. 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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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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The Circulation of Icons in Planetary - Pictures, Popular Culture and Materiality by Nicolas LABARRE, Laura PERNA, Errol RIVERA

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Super-héros et science-fiction française dans l’immédiat après-guerre by Désirée Lorenz

“…But, though the hunt for translations of foreign comics was open, and their presence would become rarer throughout the 40s and 50s, this literature has strongly influenced the graphic style and narrative imagination of French cartoonists, and thus impregnated the French post-war science fiction. The creation of French superheroes’ comics such as Fulguros (1947), Atomas (1948), or Satanax (1948) is a piece of choice for those interested in French science fiction’s formation in this period. …”
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