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100 1 0 _aD’Andrea, Fabio
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700 1 0 _a Moroni, Elisa
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245 0 0 _aFrom Beast to Superhero: Valorizations of Animality in the Comic Book
260 _c2010.
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520 _aThe world of comics is a confusional universe where Western dualisms fade and fit into new configurations. One of the strongest oppositions, man/animal, finds in it some original solutions. This essay describe the negative valorisation of the bestiality and the contemporary tendencies that aim to bridge the gap dug by 2000 years of prejudice between man’s two components. These trends are perfectly exemplified by the contradictorial figure of Batman, a too human super hero too. Batman is the incarnation of the contemporary subject misled in the middle of an artificial world he made with his own hands and which he tries to control – unsuccessfully – with the support of the technology. The tensional conflict between the rational and the emotional spheres symbolized by the bat is the fundamental issue of the XXI century.
690 _aBatman
690 _aanimality
690 _aimaginary
690 _aartificiality
690 _acomics
786 0 _nSociétés | o 106 | 4 | 2010-05-18 | p. 33-44 | 0765-3697
856 4 1 _uhttps://shs.cairn.info/journal-societes-2009-4-page-33?lang=en&redirect-ssocas=7080
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