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1	Gender, feminism, and heroism in Joss Whedon and John Cassaday's Astonishing X-Men comics Sharp, Molly Louise 23 June 2011 (has links) Hero characters and their narratives serve as important sites for negotiating a culture’s values. Informed by sexism in Western cultures, female heroes often construct and perpetuate women’s statuses as second-class citizens. However, female heroes also can and sometimes do work against such representations. This thesis argues for a third wave feminist interpretation of Joss Whedon and John Cassaday’s Astonishing X-Men comic books as a text that brings multiple feminist perspectives into conversation with each other and that opposes certain patriarchal systems. Through narrative and formal analysis, I explore female X-Men Emma Frost and Kitty Pryde as characters who reject gender essentialism and misogynist value systems and whose relationship addresses concepts of difference in third wave feminism. Using similar methods, I also explore an interpretation of villain Danger as a failure to integrate radical feminist ideologies into third wave feminism. I believe that Astonishing X-Men provides an example of how norms of the mainstream superhero comic book medium, which scholars have criticized as sexist, can be reworked for a new generation of feminists. / text Superhero comic books, strips, etc. Third wave feminism X-Men Whedon, Joss, 1964- John Cassaday Emma Frost Kitty Pryde Heroines in literature Heroines in art
2	Telling stories about storytelling the metacomics of Alan Moore, Neil Gaiman, and Warren Ellis / Kidder, Orion Ussner. January 1900 (has links) Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Alberta, 2010. / Title from pdf main screen (viewed on April 8, 2010). A thesis submitted to the Faculty of Graduate Studies and Research in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in English, Department of English and Film Studies, University of Alberta. Includes bibliographical references.
3	Frank Miller's Ideals of Heroism Jones, Stephen Matthew 18 May 2007 (has links) Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI) / This project responds to previous available literature on the subject of heroism, which tends to deal with either an isolated work or with genre- and archetype-specific analysis, and applies their concepts to case studies of Frank Miller’s various heroic models. In particular, this project addresses the film Sin City and the graphic novel The Dark Knight Strikes Again, arguing that DK2 serves as a departure of sorts from Miller’s ideals of heroism in his middle years (such as those presented in Sin City), as the protagonist becomes more of a revolutionary engaged in revamping society than the vigilante or “lone wolf” on the fringes of society. With the aforementioned sources as a general background, it is evident that Miller’s heroic ideals shift in their active capacity and scope but remain more or less steady in their strong individual sense of ethical duty. In addition, these sources aid in establishing the comparisons Miller actually invites to traditional, “archetypal” understandings of the hero as well as to the particular heroic form of Ayn Rand, which he explicitly references in DK2. Miller’s response to these previous models bolsters the assertion that theories of heroic ideals are inherently political as they deal with representations of the kind of person a hero must be, in turn involving issues of gender, ethnicity and class. batman sin city robert rodriguez frank miller adaptation movie film graphic novel comics ayn rand superhero hero 300 martha washington daredevil elektra ronin dark knight Heroes in literature

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