| Response sheet 14, for class, Thursday | |
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1a. What were superheroes like in 1940s comic books? What inspired their creation? 1b. What were superheroes like in 1960s comic books? What inspired their creation? 2. What are superheroes like in the Marvel film franchise (since 2008), according to Immerwahr? What role do they present themselves as playing in the world? 3. What are their foes like? 4. And what is the role of ordinary, non-superhero people in these films? What do they do? 5. According to St. James, the first phase of the Marvel film franchise was inspired by “9/11.” In what way? 6. St. James divides the Marvel franchise films into a structure of three discernible “acts.” Why ambiguity in the first two acts? What happened to that ambiguity in the third act? |