Tag: The Shadow
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What is a Superhero, Anyway?
On November 6th, I will be part of a panel on superheroes, morality and the modern world at Dominican University. As a lead up to that event, I thought I rerun a series of articles that first appeared on Clearance Bin Review and that would delve into a topic that is at the heart of […]
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Preliminary Marxist Critique of Superheroes
[What follows is from a class assignment for a critical theory course I took in graduate school. It’s in idea I’ve been mulling over for awhile. It is not a complete idea: just the seed of something for the future.] I’ve been mulling over this idea for a while: how to conduct a Marxist critique […]
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The Shadow: The Place for the Crimefighter in American Life
Back in 1997, I was a freshman in college, at the venerable University of Wisconsin at Madison. I went into college pre-med — I had even attended a surgery during high school at Oconto Falls and did not faint. I thought I was meant to be a doctor. I was going to earn my degree […]