Tag: 20th Century
Will the Real Steve Rogers Please Stand Up?: Conflicting Nationalist Narratives in Captain America Comics, Whitney Thompson
Captain America, despite his name, has never been a simple symbol of American patriotism — something that’s probably obvious to anybody who’s studied him or read his comics. Much of Steve Ro... Read More![“He appeared [...]clad only in a pair of low-cut blue jeans:” Incipient Female Gazing at The Outsiders (1983), Blue Profitt](https://s.wayne.edu/waynepop/files/2020/09/outsiders-542x340.jpeg)
“He appeared […]clad only in a pair of low-cut blue jeans:” Incipient Female Gazing at The Outsiders (1983), Blue Profitt
In a way, this essay began in the second year of my master’s program upon a rereading of Laura Mulvey’s “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema” when I began to seriously reconsider Mulvey’s c... Read More
Behind Closed Doors: Connecting Joyce’s ‘Wandering Rocks’ with Morrison’s Rock Poetry, Cornelius Fortune
“Did you have a good world when you died? Enough to base a movie on?” ––Jim Morrison, “The Movie,” from An American Prayer Everyone has a story to tell with a unique vision to tell ... Read More