Ramin Sheikhani; ali abbassi; Nayer Ntahoori
Abstract
"Superheroes" are one of the most important products of popular culture, which with unique costumes and powers, have been spread since the second quarter of the 20th century in comic strips and comic books, and in the last twenty years, they have been one of the dominant filmmaking trends in Hollywood. ...
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"Superheroes" are one of the most important products of popular culture, which with unique costumes and powers, have been spread since the second quarter of the 20th century in comic strips and comic books, and in the last twenty years, they have been one of the dominant filmmaking trends in Hollywood. Regardless of critical views, these films have affected the economic cycle of cinema, and have become a dominant discourse and a common language, so this article is trying to provide a coherent interpretation of them. In this study, based on the ideas of Walter Benjamin, German theorist related to the Frankfurt School, about the disenchantment of myth in modern culture, the anxieties caused by urbanization in superhero movies are focused on, and the psychological, social and political crises after the attack to New York on September 11, 2001, has been examined as one of the most important reasons for the prosperity of this type of cinema. The study method is based on library data, and describing and analyzing the visual and thematic features of the movies adapted from the more well-known superhero characters, including Superman and Batman (from DC) and Spider-Man (from Marvel), separately. In the conclusion of this study, the anxieties caused by the dominance of technology over nature, crime and terrorism, anarchism, the culture industry and human distortion in capitalist society, aliens and the fear of death and the destruction of humanity, is considered as the most important factors in the demythology of superheroes in today's cinema.
ahmad rezaei jamkarani; ali cheraghi
Abstract
The "dominant aspect" or "dominant element" is one of the fundamental concepts in formalism. It can be said that the dominant element is the prominent component of any work of art which affects other components and elements of the work and changes them; as a result, it makes the semantic centrality of ...
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The "dominant aspect" or "dominant element" is one of the fundamental concepts in formalism. It can be said that the dominant element is the prominent component of any work of art which affects other components and elements of the work and changes them; as a result, it makes the semantic centrality of the work and its structural coherence. The present study examines the dominant element in Mahmoud Dolatabadi's Works, based on "Jay -e- Khali -e- Saluch”. His works are important in various psychological and sociological aspects, but it seems the dominant aspect of these works is the "controversy of tradition and modernity” so that other issues, including violence against women and the identity crisis and poverty, have been more meaningful in the shade of the controversy. Based on the results of the present study, it can be said that various manifestations of this element (controversy of tradition and modernity) have been manifested in different forms of isolation, rejection, denial of will, identity crisis, and so on.
