David Crow Jun 6, 2019
Psychologist Dr. Andrea Letamendi considers how fans develop parasocial relationships with fictional characters, like X-Men's Dark Phoenix.
This article contains some mild Dark Phoenix spoilers.
X-Men has always been a property rich in allegorical potential. In part created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as a way to loosely comment on the civil rights movement of its era, the perennially evolving mutants have long been used by artists to reflect nearly every social change of the past 50 years—and that includes the X-Men movies too. Early films held a mirror to the struggle of coming out as Lgbtq at a time when gay marriage was still illegal and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was enforced, and Logan more recently showed big Americans with guns chasing Hispanic children across a border.
But these themes are not not just part of the franchise’s general interest to Dr.
Psychologist Dr. Andrea Letamendi considers how fans develop parasocial relationships with fictional characters, like X-Men's Dark Phoenix.
This article contains some mild Dark Phoenix spoilers.
X-Men has always been a property rich in allegorical potential. In part created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby as a way to loosely comment on the civil rights movement of its era, the perennially evolving mutants have long been used by artists to reflect nearly every social change of the past 50 years—and that includes the X-Men movies too. Early films held a mirror to the struggle of coming out as Lgbtq at a time when gay marriage was still illegal and Don’t Ask Don’t Tell was enforced, and Logan more recently showed big Americans with guns chasing Hispanic children across a border.
But these themes are not not just part of the franchise’s general interest to Dr.
- 6/5/2019
- Den of Geek
There are times one wonders what synergies truly exist between parent company Warner Bros and DC Entertainment. Normally, the studio cherry-picks properties it wants from its subsidiary and rarely does DC get something in return. However, as the company planned its mammoth villain-centric fall publishing plans, they managed to corral the studio into helping create and market the just released Necessary Evil: Super-Villains of DC Comics. The 99-minute documentary features sound and fury but its significance is obscured.
Watching it, I kept wondering who this was being marketed to since casual fans of the movies, television shows, or video games lack the context to comprehend much of what the host of talking heads had to say. Even current readers of the New 52 might be confused by the various iterations of the villains as they have appeared through the years.
With Christopher Lee trying, and not entirely succeeding, at using...
Watching it, I kept wondering who this was being marketed to since casual fans of the movies, television shows, or video games lack the context to comprehend much of what the host of talking heads had to say. Even current readers of the New 52 might be confused by the various iterations of the villains as they have appeared through the years.
With Christopher Lee trying, and not entirely succeeding, at using...
- 11/4/2013
- by Robert Greenberger
- Comicmix.com
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