Tag: The Shadow

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  October 15, 2013

  Audience/Reception Studies, Comics Studies, Superheroes

  Dark Horse, DC, definition, Hellboy, Mandrake the Magician, Marvel, morality, Nite Owl, Peter Coogan, Robin Hood, Superheroes, Superman, supervillains, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, The Incredibles, The Phantom, The Shadow, The Tick, Underdog, Zorro

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 24, 2011

  Superheroes

  Alienation, Batman, Escapism, Iron Man, Marxism, Robin Hood, Superheroes, The Shadow, Zorro

• 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 […]

  CarrieLynn D. Reinhard

  February 18, 2011

  Superheroes

  Cultural Studies, Orson Welles, pulp fiction, radio dramas, Superheroes, The Great Depression, The Shadow