Tag: Marvel Comics

• Squirrel Girl and Feminism

  

  I created this video for DePaul’s Pop Culture Conference in 2021 on superheroes. For the first time, it was an entirely online conference with asynchronous, video presentations for academic work. The ideas in this piece come from a chapter I wrote for an anthology being produced by Bryan Carr and Meta G. Carstarphen. That chapter […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 12, 2021

  Comics Studies, Fandom, Gender Studies

  Disney, Fandom, Feminism, fourth-wave feminism, Marvel, Marvel Comics, public intellectualism, public scholarship, second-wave fmeinism, Squirrel Girl, third-wave feminism

• The Pop Culture Lens Episode 11: Captain Midnight

  

  In the eleventh episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I welcome friend of the podcast Blair Davis of DePaul University to discuss a pulp hero from the radio era, Captain Midnight. Captain Midnight began as a radio serial in 1938 (which you can listen to here), at the dawn of the […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  June 29, 2015

  Comics Studies, Superheroes

  Adaptation, Adaptation theory, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Captain Midnight, Chicago, Comic books, comic strips, Dark Horse Comics, Fawcett Comics, film serials, Marvel Cinematic Universe, Marvel Comics, Ovaltine, radio serials, reboot, reimagining, remake, spin-off, transmedia, transmedia storytelling, WGN

• The Pop Culture Lens: Episode on the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly of Fandom

  

  On a special episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I discuss a subject that has been one we have debated numerous times in our private lives and has become one that I have been focusing on as a research project: fandom, is it good or bad? We begin the conversation with […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  May 15, 2015

  Audience/Reception Studies, Fandom, Internet Studies

  “television-as-content”, C2E2, Chip Zdarsky, comic industry, Comics, culture wars, Dark Horse, DC, fan art, fan communities, fan fiction, fan studies, Fandom, fans, fractured fandom, GamerGate, identity, Image, insularity, Marvel Comics, MCU, Other Space, Paul Feig, Sad Puppies, Sex Criminals, Valiant, walled gardens

• Making Sense of Superheroes: Awareness of superhero genre conventions around the world

  

  Report by CarrieLynn D. Reinhard, Roskilde University (March 6, 2009) of the Quantitative Results (This paper was presented at the Danish scifi convention Fantasticon to discuss the nature of superheroes.) A series of quantitative and qualitative questions were asked of individuals around the world on: whether or not certain characteristics defined superheroes; creating their own […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  March 12, 2014

  Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Superheroes

  anime, Batman, Blade, Captain America, DC Comics, Globalization, Hellboy, Hercules, Iron Man, legends, manga, Marvel Comics, Power Rangers, Sailor Moon, Spider-Man, Superheroes, Superman, Tarzan, The Hulk, The Incredibles, The X-Men, Thor, Wolverine, Wonder Woman

• The Morality of Superheroes

  

  Previously I have discussed the definition of superheroes, the international nature of superheroes, and the ability to consider superheroes from different legends and religions.  In this post I share my thoughts on the ethical and moral nature of superheroes, on how we could consider them to be role models for our modern lives.  The further […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 30, 2013

  Comics Studies, Superheroes

  Ant-Man, Batman, Black Canary, Captain America, Captain Marvel, Cyborg, DC Comics, Enlightenment, ethics, Fantastic Four, Green Arrow, Green Lantern, Iron Man, Marvel Comics, morality, Plastic Man, Red Tornado, role models, Spider-Man, Superheroes, Superman, The Avengers, The Flash, The Hulk, Thor, Vision, Wonder Woman, X-Men

• A World of Superheroes

  As a lead up to a panel I will be on about superheroes and religion, I am reprinting here a series originally created for Clearance Bin Review.  This series focuses on one of the current driving forces in American pop culture: superheroes.  In the previous article, I focused on working out just what exactly is a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 25, 2013

  Comics Studies, Critical/Cultural Studies, Superheroes

  Alpha Flight, Aquaman, Astro boy, Atlantis, Black Panther, Canada, Captain Canuck, DC Comics, Diabolik, Dragonball, El Santo, Excalibur, Judge Dredd, Justice League, Justice League International, luchadors, Marvel Comics, Marvelman, Namor, Pippi Longstocking, Sailor Moon, Tank Girl, The 99, Themyscira, Wakanda, Wonder Woman

• From Jezebel: DC Comics Contest: Draw a Naked Woman Committing Suicide

  Seriously, just what is wrong with DC lately?  Have the editors in charge taken leave of their senses?  Has the success of Marvel as of late completely rattled them? First the horrendous sexualization of women in the New 52 (and everything else idiotic since then).  Then the horrendous death of Lois Lane to spur a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  September 7, 2013

  Comics Studies

  Adventure Time, Batwoman, Children, Comics, DC Comics, Doctor Who, Harley Quinn, Jimmy Palmiotti, Lois Lane, Marvel Comics, My Little Pony, New 52, scandal, sexualization, violence