Heroes and VillainsHercules, Jesus, James Bond, Luke Skywalker, Gandalf, Frodo, Harry Potter, Buffy Summers, Spiderman, Batman, Captain Kirk, Dr. Who, Darth Vader, Sauron, Voldemort, Lex Luthor, Dr. Doom, the Daleks, the Borg. Almost anybody living in the developed West would be able to group these individuals into two camps: the heroes and the villains. However, what criteria they may use to do this is less clear. Mike Alsford introduces us to a range of heroic and villainous archetypes on a journey through film, television, comic books, and literature. On the way, he addresses questions such as: What is a true hero? What is a true villain? Have we misunderstood these terms? What kind of societal values do our mythical heroes and villains represent? In trying to understand the extremes of hero and villain we are made more aware of our own ethical standards and given a space in which to explore contemporary concerns over notions of right and wrong, good and bad. |
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... classic hero , this is by no means the only form of engagement that we may identify . Power , as we mentioned above , comes in many forms . In Paul Dini and Alex Ross's graphic novel The World's Greatest Super - Heroes classic heroes ...
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... Classics , 1997 Nietzsche , F. , Beyond Good and Evil , ( 1885 ) , Dover Publications , 1998 Nietzsche , F. , The Gay Science , ( 1882 ) , Random House , 1974 Nolte , E. , Three Faces of Facism , Mentor , 1969 Plato , The Republic ...
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Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
Copyright | |
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