Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Progress
I am now starting to find some good sources for working towards my superhero paper. I'm pretty excited to find some interesting articles and learn more about superheroes. Makes researching less like researching.
Annotated Bibliography
Rosenburg, Robin S. “What Is a Superhero?” Psychology Today. 11 March, 2010. Web. 16 February 2011.
Robin S. Rosenburg begins her article by explaining why she is writing about superheroes. Rosenburg explains that she chose to write about superheroes because people like to read about them because they are easy to relate to, despite their super human abilities. Rosenburg claims that people identify with these superheroes; that they are “modeled for us, as well as after us”. Rosenburg also continues on to define a superhero. Rosenburg cites many definitions, the main gist being “someone with above average abilities”. Rosenburg also states that superhero stories have certain examples of psychological phenomena. Specifically, Roseburg cites Batman and Ironman as having something called “post-traumatic growth or stress-induced growth.” Rosenburg goes on to say that she believes that people are interested in superheroes mainly because in some ways they are just like us, only a small step higher in strength or other ability. Rosenburg states that people are interested in them because they are like us, and make us wonder about what we ourselves can achieve.
Annotated Bibliography
Dugan, Erin. “A Conversation with Matt McAllister”. http://www.rps.psu.edu/unplugged/spring10/april14.html
Research Penn State April 20, 2010.
Matt McAllister states that comic books have become a great leader in movie hits nowadays. He asserts that two of the main reasons that these movies are such great winners at the box office is that they offer viewers exciting scenes to watch as well as well defined “good guys” and “bad guys”. These movies also have an appeal to just about anyone who likes to watch a good battle take place so have a certain universal appeal from their hero vs. villain storyline. McAllister also brings up that advertising and merchandising of comic book movies is easy because many things can be done to promote upcoming movie-t-shirts, toys, cereals, as well as the comic books that have already been published. It is also stated that comic book movies usually have great appeal for the fact that they have great “sequel potential”. In essence this can draw people in and get them to keep coming back for more. McAllister says that for these reasons, comic book movies have become a common hit among the people of this generation.
Annotated Bibliography
Evans, Luke. “Superheroes Are Misunderstood”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/sep/09/superheroes-batman-misunderstood. February 10, 2011.
Luke Evans begins his article by addressing an already made assumption that superheroes in the media today are not good role models for today’s youth. Evans states that the superhero is “chronically misunderstood”. Evans concedes that in some cases, such as Batman and Ironman, the heroes are significantly wealthy and show some sort of morality that some may or may not find to be the best, but he argues that these heroes also deal with normal issues like any other person. Evans states that these heroes can cause harm in their worlds but that they must come to terms with their responsibility as superheroes to take on these challenges and fight against wrong, despite its setbacks. Evans also says that these movies can be a gateway to comics (which is seen to be bad by some), but Evans believes that this is good for youth to check out these comic books for views into other hardships that these all-to-real fictional characters must face. Evans argues that these hardships make superheroes relatable to today’s youth and could be a resource in learning to deal with the hardships in life.
Sunday, February 6, 2011
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