Tag: samurai

• The Pop Culture Lens on Yojimbo (1961)

  

  In the twenty-seventh episode of The Pop Culture Lens podcast, Christopher Olson and I welcome back friend of the podcast Joe Belfeuil to discuss Akira Kurosawa’s samurai classic Yojimbo (1961). In this episode, the conversation focuses on the film’s position as a transnational and transcultural pop culture text that acts as a link in a […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  August 29, 2016

  Film Studies, Gender Studies

  Akira Kurosawa, fan fiction, Fandom, game theory, Japanese, masculinity, ronin, samurai, Transcultural, transnational, Westerns, Yojimbo

• Superheroes of Religions, Legends

  As originally first reported for the Clearance Bin Review, and as a preparation for the panel I am on this Wednesday night, November 6th, at Dominican University, I wrap up my three part series on superheroes (part 1 and part 2) with this entry, in which I attempt to answer this question: do religious figures and the heroes of […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  November 4, 2013

  Critical/Cultural Studies, Superheroes

  Batman, Beowulf, Captain Marvel, El Cid, Greek heroes, Iron Man, Jesus Christ, Lord Rama, Moses, Paul Bunyan, Perseus, Ramayana, Robin Hood, Roman heroes, samurai, Siddhartha, Superheroes, Superman, Yoshitsune