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Rampant Lechers, Chaste Heroes. (De-)Sexualised Violence in Comic book Screen Adaptations
(2017)
Violence is a central element of comic book screen adaptations in both Hollywood (Marvel, DC) and Japan. Yet while sexual violence is openly shown in film versions of manga, coded sexualised violence dominates Western ...
Deconstructing Gilgul, Finding Identity. Captain America and the Winter Soldier in a Judaistic Perspective
(2017)
Captain America and Bucky, characters who appear in Marvel Comics, seem to be temporally displaced. The article scrutinizes that temporal displacement, comparing it with the Judaistic concept of gilgul – the transmigration ...
On the History and Hermeneutics of Comics
(2017)
What is a comic? The simple answer states that a comic is a drawn story that is picture- rather than text-oriented and told serially. In other words, a comic is a type of illustration. Realism is not its goal; rather a ...
The Problem of Evil in DC Universe Animated Movies, 2007–2016. DC Multiverse, an Ironic Illustration of Leibniz’s Theodicy?
(2017)
This article explores the question of evil and its metaphysical and moral implications in a series of animated movie adaptations of the DC Universe produced since 2006. The contemporary evolution of the medium, called the ...
Editorial: The Relevance of Comics and their Screen Adaptations
(2017)
Editorial of JRFM 2017, 3/1 : Drawn Stories, Moving Images. Comic Books and their Screen Adaptations
Bulletproof Love: Luke Cage (2016) and Religion
(2017)
There are many ways to think about religion and popular culture. One method is to ask where and when we see what might be commonly understood as “religious tradition(s)” explicitly on display. Another is to think about ...
Bridging Real and Virtual: A Spiritual Challenge
(2017)
The question of how to bridge virtuality and reality intensified in 2016 with the release of several consumer products. The article begins by reviewing two anxieties about virtual reality raised at a 1999 conference. To ...