Superheroes are primarily thought of as comic book stars but the superhero is actually a multimedia phenomenon with roots going back to newspaper comic strips. Buck Rogers, Flash Gordon, and the...
Age of the Superhero (Heroes Part 4)
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The Action Hero (Heroes Part 3)
The Action Movie is defined by car chases, martial arts, gunfights, spectacular stunts, and lots of things blowing up. The Action Hero has to pull off all of this and look convincing doing it....
Rise of the Antihero (Heroes Part 2)
The antihero archetype goes back to the dawn of literary antiquity. In Greek Drama antiheroes were common protagonists, but always in tragedies; and the antihero’s flaws inevitably led to the...
When There Were Heroes
American Movie Heroes Part 1 Once upon a time, Hollywood made movies with heroes; heroes that were role models, heroes that inspired, and heroes every man wanted to be - or wanted his son to be,...