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Reading assignment for American Popular Culture
Is There A Superhero In All of Us? by Peter A Hancock and Gabriella Hancock
Robin S. Rosenberg, editor. The Psychology of
Superheroes, Unauthorized Exploration.
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Chapter Three: The Definition of the Superhero.
Peter Coogan. Superhero, The Secret Origin of A Genre. Monkey Brain Books, 2006.
Top Ten Superheroes
Which Superhero are you? Quiz
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Reading assignment for American Popular Culture
Sean McCann. "Constructing Race Williams: The Klan and the Making of Hard-Boiled Crime Fiction"
From: American Quarterly 49.4 (1997)
Richard Layman. "There is Only one Maltese Falcon" January Magazine, Febuary, 2005.
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Twists, Slugs and Roscoes: A Glossary of Hardboiled Slang
Compiled by William Denton. Copyright © 2005.
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Reading assignment for American Popular Culture Weeks Seven to Twelve . ( click on image to download and print article)
Chapter Four: The Supervillain
Peter Coogan. Superhero, The Secret Origin of A Genre. Monkey Brain Books, 2006.
Top Ten Supervillains
Which Super Villain are you? Quiz
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"Superhero Revisionism in· Watchmen and The Dark Knight Returns" by AEON J. SKOBLE
From: Superheroes and Philosophy, Truth Justice and the Socratic Way. Edited by Tom Morris and Mati Morris, OPEN COURT Chicago, 2007.
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To date, Watchmen remains the only graphic novel to win a Hugo Award, and is also the only graphic ...
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No story in the Batman world is probably more important than Frank Miller's The Dark Knight Returns. This story was released in 1986, and was responsible for the rejuvenation of Batman as a dark character, and for the comics industry as a whole. Read the following overview of The Dark Knight Returns, and see why this story is so powerful... |
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