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klenaI feel like I have an awful lot to say about a number of issues that are pressing on me right now but I'm going to put this forward for your consideration until I've worked out the knots of my thoughts into a presentable weave.
Dissertation proposal! as;lkdf;sdlkflsdkfds/o\
Behold the outline of the topic, coupled with the tentative title The Times, They Are A-Changing: Society, Superheroes and Change in Graphic Fiction:
As children, we all grow up with some notion of superheroes – special people with extraordinary powers that regularly save the world from evil and have exciting lives and that we idolise. They are the first people we admire, these people who protect us from the world. Yet over the last twenty years, our culture has changed.
Society has gone thrown societal uprisings, wars, economical recessions, political scandals, and the rise of ‘celebrity culture’, international terrorism, natural catastrophes and acts of scientific progress.
We have watched as laws on relationships and human rights change the world, as topics such as immigration, homosexual marriages and social identity versus cultural identity become debates of everyday life.
As is to be expected, reading habits over this period have also changed leading to an uprising of graphic fiction becoming more socially accepted and integrated into a wider mainstream literary culture. The questions raised by this are endless: Why has this change come about? What have comic books offered readers that has initiated this new kind of reading behaviour? What commentary have the writers of these comics offered us on the world we live in (or the world they perceive we now live in)? Perhaps most importantly, what has happened to our superheroes?
in other news: why am i still awake at 7am?
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Dissertation proposal! as;lkdf;sdlkflsdkfds/o\
Behold the outline of the topic, coupled with the tentative title The Times, They Are A-Changing: Society, Superheroes and Change in Graphic Fiction:
As children, we all grow up with some notion of superheroes – special people with extraordinary powers that regularly save the world from evil and have exciting lives and that we idolise. They are the first people we admire, these people who protect us from the world. Yet over the last twenty years, our culture has changed.
Society has gone thrown societal uprisings, wars, economical recessions, political scandals, and the rise of ‘celebrity culture’, international terrorism, natural catastrophes and acts of scientific progress.
We have watched as laws on relationships and human rights change the world, as topics such as immigration, homosexual marriages and social identity versus cultural identity become debates of everyday life.
As is to be expected, reading habits over this period have also changed leading to an uprising of graphic fiction becoming more socially accepted and integrated into a wider mainstream literary culture. The questions raised by this are endless: Why has this change come about? What have comic books offered readers that has initiated this new kind of reading behaviour? What commentary have the writers of these comics offered us on the world we live in (or the world they perceive we now live in)? Perhaps most importantly, what has happened to our superheroes?
in other news: why am i still awake at 7am?
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:12 am (UTC)I've worked out the knots of my thoughts into a presentable weave.
It's like poetry! Or a rap song.
That's a good statement of your proposal! You were wanting feedback? I think, if you can connect the final paragraph about comics more concretely to the first three about society's changes, you'll have a very strong standpoint to launch your proposal from.
(P.S. When I reloaded my F-page and saw your entry, I was totally listening to some of the music you gave while you were here! Still am, actually.)
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:27 am (UTC)I'm just not sure at what points to work in references to superheroes and stuff. I mean, superheroes aren't going to be the focus of my work but....a;dsfjalfjlakjfa i always swear I am never going to leave everything last minute again BUT I ALWAYS DO!
(what were you listening to???)
P.S ♥ ♥ ♥
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Date: 2009-04-30 06:51 am (UTC)Listening to the Neil Gaiman compilation! :D
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:03 am (UTC)\o/ MADE OF WIN
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Date: 2009-04-30 07:35 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-04-30 07:36 am (UTC)But seriously though, I feel like I haven't talked to you in absolute yonks.
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Date: 2009-04-30 08:23 am (UTC)What have we been doing with ourselves??
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Date: 2009-04-30 10:23 am (UTC)There are a growing number of real life folks who are actually dressing up in costumed garb and running around as superheroes:
There was an article about one in Ohio the other day.
And there's actually a superhero registry website!
Crazy, no?
So there's where your superheroes have gone, apparently. They're in Ohio.