Vol 2 No 3 (2020): Make the Superhero Great Again!
Make the Superhero Great Again!

The image of a superhero has become one of the fundamental images in the modern mass culture of the 20th and 21st centuries. Coming down from the pages of American comics, they have made their way into the most diverse areas of modern culture: cinema, computer games, anime, cosplay, etc. They are no longer heroes only for young people, becoming a kind of cultural core around which a whole universe of images, ideas, meanings, concepts, etc. is built.

It is certain that a superhero is a kind of litmus test that indicates the directions of modern society development. But it is also a testing ground, where certain ideas are tested, because society votes with its attitude to each new image of a superhero, approaching it quite critically, accepting or rejecting it. Therefore, we can say that a superhero is a dynamic figure, developing and well indicating the state of public moods, aspirations and expectations.

Actualization of the superhero character in the 21st century is a marker of complex global problems that humankind has faced. The study of this phenomenon in modern culture provides an opportunity to consider these problems from a new angle.

Editors: Rastyam T. Aliev & Kwasu Tembo

Full Issue
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Introduction

Rastyam T. Aliev, Kwasu Tembo
15-25
“Make the Superhero Great Again!”: Introduction to the Issue
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Representing Superhero

Konstantin A. Ocheretyany
27-46
Super-non-Hero: from Superpower to Ultra-Violence
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Arina A. Kutovaia, Ekaterina V. Mikhailovskaya
47-88
The Myth of Batman: Intra- and Interdiscursive Transformations
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Taynah Ibanez Barbosa, Mateus Yuri Ribeiro da Silva Passos
89-118
Stepping out of Divinity: Tom King's “All-too-human” Batman
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Kwasu Tembo
119-137
Why Superman Will Not Save the World: Theorizing the Relationship Between Suffering and DC Comics Superman
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Superhero in Cinema

Sergey A. Pesyakov
139-159
“The Dark is Afraid of Me”: Philosophical and Anthropological Issues in the Riddick Trilogy
Abstract views: 331 | Galleys Downloads: 272
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Literature and Superheroes

Asia A. Sarakaeva, Elina A. Sarakaeva
161-172
Hero and Fate in the Nibelungenlied
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Elena E. Zavyalova
173-191
Protosuperheroes in Russian Classics of the 19th century
Abstract views: 354 | Galleys Downloads: 287
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Global & Local Superhero

Anja Lange
245-272
The Beginning of Ukrman – a Fighter against the Evil and the Coronavirus
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Samantha da Silva Diefenthaeler
273-294
Notes on Penthesilea: The marks of a past of female heroism
Abstract views: 493 | Galleys Downloads: 343
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Vinodh Venkatesh
295-309
Argentina in Crisis: Superheroes in Zenitram (2010) and Kryptonita (2015)
Abstract views: 377 | Galleys Downloads: 250
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