Tag: Sailor Moon
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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 […]
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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 […]
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The Rise of Hentai in America, Part 2
[In part 1 of this 2006 women studies paper, I discussed what hentai is and how it has grown in consumption in the United States; so if you are first entering this report via this part, you should pop on over there first. In this part of the report, I compare hentai to live action […]
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Representations of Women in Japanese and American Pop Culture
(From a 2004 paper on a cross-cultural examination of the superheroine) In their article on children and role models, Anderson and Cavallaro (2002) say that superheroes are “larger-than-life symbols of American values and ‘maleness’.” (p. 162). From a socialization point of view, is there reason to be concerned about […]
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