Volume 10 , 2006/2007

Jan 29, 2009 | Comics, fan culture, Older Media, Other, Volume 10

Post-Superheroes: Transcending Media Guest Editor, Wendy Haslem CONTENTS   1. Superhero by Numbers – Lisa Watson and Phil Stocks   2. El Santo: Wrestler, Saint and Superhero – Gabrielle Murray   3. America vs Japan: the Influence of American...

Superhero By Numbers – Lisa Watson and Phil Stocks

Jan 29, 2009 | Comics, Film, Television, Volume 10

Abstract: This paper reports on results of a statistical analysis correlating superhero characteristics such as powers, motivations, weaknesses, and costumes with commercial viability as represented by comic book sales and number of appearances in new media such as...

El Santo: Wrestler, Saint and Superhero – Gabrielle Murray

Dec 4, 2006 | Comics, Film, Older Media, Volume 10

Abstract:In Santo, el Enmascarado de Plata Álvaron A. Fernández Reyes notes that within the immense cultural productions of modern Mexico, the ritual and myths that revolve around the heroic figure of Santo, are peculiarly diverse, embodying the creation of new...

America vs. Japan: the Influence of American Comics on Manga – Ludovic Graillat

Dec 4, 2006 | Volume 10

Abstract: America is very much linked to Japan. Since the Second World War these two countries are at the same time a model, a foe, a friend to each other. When we talk about the manga we often compare them to the comics. Although Japan has its own superheroes (such...

Superheroes, Superegos : icons of war and the war of icons in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro – Pascal Zinck

Dec 4, 2006 | Volume 10

    Abstract: This essay examines the enduring providential intervention of superheroes in the fiction of Kazuo Ishiguro, drawing on examples from his novels to probe linguistic, psychoanalytical, cultural, and historical aspects. Arguing that most of...

Why are Japanese Girls’ Comics full of Boys Bonking?[1] – Mark McLelland

Dec 4, 2006 | Volume 10

Abstract ‘Boys’ love’ (shōnen’ai) in Japanese does not refer to the love many young Japanese women feel for male teen idols but instead refers to the homoerotic attraction the male heroes in a genre of Japanese women’s manga (comics) feel for each other. Commencing in...