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Criminals as Heroes in Popular Culture
Language: en
Pages: 183
Authors: Roxie J. James
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 2020-03-07 - Publisher: Springer Nature

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This book delves into humanity’s compulsive need to valorize criminals. The criminal hero is a seductive figure, and audiences get a rather scopophilic pleasu
Heroes In Hard Times
Language: en
Pages: 297
Authors: Neal King
Categories: Performing Arts
Type: BOOK - Published: 1999-06-15 - Publisher: Temple University Press

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According to Neal King, cop action movies point both an accusatory finger and homoerotically murderous race at powerful white men. A close look at a massive and
Criminals as Heroes
Language: en
Pages: 216
Authors: Paul Kooistra
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1989 - Publisher: Popular Press

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Outlaw Heroes in Myth and History
Language: en
Pages: 242
Authors: Graham Seal
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 2011 - Publisher: Anthem Press

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This book is an overview and analysis of the global tradition of the outlaw hero. The mythology and history of the outlaw hero is traced from the Roman Empire t
Comic Book Crime
Language: en
Pages: 298
Authors: Nickie D. Phillips
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-07-15 - Publisher: NYU Press

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Superman, Batman, Daredevil, and Wonder Woman are iconic cultural figures that embody values of order, fairness, justice, and retribution. Comic Book Crime digs
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