Investigating Heroes : essays on truth, justice, and quality TV / edited by David Simmons

• Introduction / David Simmons -- Heroes and villains. The redemption of HRG / Lynnette Porter -- "I'm different... special": the body of the superhero / Bronwen Calvert -- Elective affinities: Heroes and the contemporary conception of the family / Stan Beeler -- "Last in my class, last on the sports field, I'm not a loser anymore": centralizing the "geek" in quality television / David Simmons -- Borrowings and intertexts. Naturalizing the fantastic: comics archetypes / Julia Round -- Superpowers and super-insight: how back story and motivation emerge through the Heroes graphic novels / Kristin M. Barton -- "Niki's not here right now": fragmented identity in NBC's Heroes / Laura Hilton -- Science fiction and the uncanny realism of Heroes / David Hipple -- Super style: notes for a stylistic analysis / Sergio Dias Branco -- Ideas and concepts. Heroes, control, and regulation / Lorna Jowett -- "You're broken. I can fix you": negotiating concepts of U.S. ideology / Torsten Caeners -- Heroes' internationalism: toward a cosmopolitical ethics in mainstream American television / Kenneth Chan -- "This power, it's bigger than me": time travel as narrative device and catalyst for character exposition / Kevin Lee Robinson. 

Ämnesord

TV-serier  (sfit)

Titel

Heroes (US, 2006-2009)

Klassifikation

PN1992.77.H47 (LCC)