Tag: Avengers

• The Pop Culture Lens Takes on Joss Whedon

  

  On this eighteenth episode of The Pop Culture Lens, we present the recording of a second roundtable discussion from the 2015 Midwest Popular Culture Association Conference. This roundtable discusses the topic of director and showrunner Joss Whedon — and how much of a controversial figure and person he is for so many people, including his […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  December 8, 2015

  Audience/Reception Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Fandom, Uncategorized

  Angel, Avengers, Black Widow, Buffy, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, controversial, Dollhouse, Feminism, Firefly, Intersectionality, Joss Whedon, monster, Much Ado about Nothing, Shield, The Hulk, third wave feminism, Twitter, Whedon, Whedonisms, X-Men

• Comics Adaptations Causing Fractured Fandom

  

  We are now full swing into the summer blockbuster season for Hollywood, and let’s take a tally of movies that are currently out or soon to arrive that originate from the pages of comic books.  Captain America: The Winter Soldier.  The Amazing Spider-Man 2.  X-Men: Days of Future Past.  Hercules.  Guardians of the Galaxy.  Teenage […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 11, 2014

  Anime/Manga, Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Fandom

  Adaptation, Adaptation theory, Adaptations, Avengers, Batman, Blair Davis, Captain America, Comic books, comic strips, Comics, DePaul University, Doctor Who, faithfulness, Fandom, fans, fidelity, fractured fandom, Game of Thrones, Green Arrow, Guardians of the Galaxy, Johnny Storm, Michael B. Jordan, Popular Culture Association, Sin City, Spider-Man, Star Trek, Superman, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Joker, Wonder Woman, X-Men

• The Oddness of Old Comic Books

  (This post originally appeared on Clearance Bin Review.  I am reposting it here given my interest in studying the morality of superheroes as well as my interest in understanding how people make sense of texts as they engage with them.  I also believe there is something to be said about the importance of the nature of the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  January 8, 2014

  Comics Studies, Superheroes

  Avengers, Batman, Fantastic Four, feminisim, Robin, Scott McCloud, Sense-making, Spider-Man, Superdickery, Wonder Woman, X-Men