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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... episode we see Buffy's grave stone which reads : Buffy Anne Summers 1981-2001 Devoted Sister Beloved Friend She Saved the World A Lot The reference to her adventurous , world saving heroics is , I believe , deliberately understated as ...
... episode . Thus the villain- ous Spike who tried to take Buffy by force at the end of Season Six is replaced by the heroic Spike who is content simply to hold her while she rests and describes this one incident as ' the best night of his ...
... episode A Taste of Armageddon : ANAN7 : There can be no peace , don't you see , we've admit- ted it to ourselves ... episodes one to three of the Star Wars saga is a different case to the Batman entirely . Here is a person who does ...
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Myth and Imagination | 1 |
Heroes and Otherness | 23 |
With Great Power Comes Great Responsibility | 63 |
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