Mapping Smallville: Critical Essays on the Series and Its Characters

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Cory Barker, Chris Ryan, Myc Wiatrowski
McFarland, 9 ביולי 2014 - 224 עמודים

One of the first full-length academic projects on the television series Smallville, this collection of new essays explains why the WB/CW series is important to understanding contemporary popular culture. The essays are presented in four sections covering broad categories: Clark Kent's metamorphosis to Superman and the influence of his parents and the home; the role of the series' noteworthy female characters; the series' representations of the Other, explorations of identity, and the ways in which characters speak to Clark's own struggles; and audience reception of the series and its position within the Superman narrative universe.

 

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Acknowledgments
Archetypes and Mythic Structures
The Superheros Shaping by His Archetypal
Domesticity andtheMale Hero
Sidekicks orHeroines?The Feminist Successes and Failures
Tess Mercer as EthicalHeroPETER MELVILLE
UnMasking the Signified Other
Model Immigration and Supermans
The Inconsistency of Smallvilles
Sites of Nostalgia and AffectGREGORY
Selected Bibliography
About the Contributors
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מידע על המחבר (2014)

Cory Barker is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Communication & Culture at Indiana University. His writing has appeared in Vox, Complex, The A.V. Club, and other publications. He lives in Peoria, Illinois. Chris Ryan is an editor and social media researcher in Austin, Texas. Myc Wiatrowski is an analyst of business and culture and associate instructor in the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University in Bloomington.

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