scholarly journals The World’s Hero: Gods and Archetypes in the Myth of the Superman

2021 ◽  
Vol 3 (2) ◽  
pp. 262-276
Author(s):  
Rehuel Nikolai Soriano
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Archetypal Analysis ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
Human Attributes

This study aims to demonstrate and document that the phenomenon of Superman, as a fictional character, is an amalgamation of the extra human attributes of the heroes and gods that are read and seen in ancient narratives. Specifically, it identifies the qualities of Superman as a superhero, determines the parallelism that exists between these qualities of Superman and those of mythological and biblical personae, and establishes the similarity between the scenes, situations, and events found in its mythos and those that are found in archetypal narratives to vividly delineate his image as the world’s superhero. A content analysis of the text was primarily conducted to draw the structural elements of its narrative. Since this study also assumes that literary texts may be viewed outside of their aesthetic merits, an archetypal analysis is subsequently implemented. Meanwhile, the theoretical foundation of this study is predicated on the theory of Archetypes which assumes that literary texts are based on and influenced by archaic structures manifested in the recurring motifs, mythological counterparts, and parallelisms embedded in the story. As stated in the results, it was determined that the mythos of Superman as a heroic character is a reimagination and manifestation of mythological stories as exemplified in the analyzed materials. Furthermore, it showed that he functions as a custodian of several archetypal figures and with this, can be used as a bridge in teaching traditional literature since he embodies a conglomeration of several mythological characters. The materials analyzed in this study were composed of eight graphic novels, six Hollywood films, and two animated movies.

Mainstream Superhero Comics and Gendered Representations of Social Control

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Hope Hutchins
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Social Control ◽  
Police Officers ◽  
Qualitative Content Analysis ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Real Life ◽  
Women Police Officers ◽  
Wide Range ◽  
Media Constructions ◽  
Women Police

In the context of increasing familiarity with mainstream superhero comics and their characters, a wide range of readers are being exposed to the values regarding gender and social control being communicated in this genre. Therefore, it is important to assess whether social control is signified differently for males and females in superhero comics. This presentation will begin with a discussion of why it is important to study comics and graphic novels. I will then outline the concept of social control and criminological theories centered on this idea before demonstrating why superheroes may be understood as agents of social control. This will bring me to a discussion of preliminary findings of a qualitative content analysis of issues of Batman, Captain America, Wonder Woman, Ms Marvel, Justice League of America, and New Avengers comics released from May to October 2007. In examining the leadership positions, the formal and informal methods employed, those over whom social control is exercised, and relative success of each superhero in these issues, I am seeking to assess whether social control is portrayed as being exercised by male and female superheroes in different ways and to identify how this happens. The results of this content analysis will be compared with previous studies of women police officers to assess whether representations of female agents of social control in superhero comics are consistent with the experiences of real‐life criminal justice practitioners. Finally, the reasons for and implications of the nature of such media constructions will be briefly explored to encourage other students to study comics and graphic novels.

scholarly journals The Covers of Young Adult Novels and Their Graphic Novel Adaptations: A Qualitative Multimodal Content Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 69 (1) ◽  
pp. 303-319
Author(s):  
Dani Kachorsky ◽  
Stephanie F. Reid
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Young Adult ◽  
Visual Culture ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Literacy Education ◽  
Graphic Novel ◽  
Social Semiotics ◽  
Visual Elements ◽  
Visual Artifacts ◽  
Support Students

Drawing from theories of visual culture, social semiotics, and multimodality, the researchers conducted a qualitative multimodal content analysis of the covers of 21 young adult (YA) books that had been adapted as graphic novels (GNs). This study showed that the GN covers emphasized character and that the ages of the represented characters seemed to shift during the process of adaptation. However, publishers linked the two covers through branding, color schemes, and visual elements. These findings suggest that publishers view the readership of GNs differently than the readership of YA novels. This article encourages literacy education researchers and classroom practitioners to support students in analyzing visual artifacts designed for particular consumers. Critical readers could examine the sites of production and dissemination in addition to the text itself.

scholarly journals Graphic Novels: Understanding How Fifth Graders Read Literary Texts through Eye Movements Analysis

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (33/34) ◽  
pp. 388-427
Author(s):  
Suriani Mohd Yusof ◽  
Zalina Mohd Lazim ◽  
Khazriyati Salehuddin ◽  
Mizhanim Mohamad Shahimin
Keyword(s):  
Eye Movements ◽  
Graphic Novels ◽  
Fifth Graders ◽  
Literary Texts

scholarly journals Islamophobia In Western Media: A Study Of American Movies After 9/11

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 143-150
Author(s):  
Dr. Muhammad Umair Chaudhary ◽  
Dr. Abdul Ghani ◽  
Hassan Naseer
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
The United States ◽  
First Century ◽  
Terrorist Attacks ◽  
The West ◽  
Negative Stereotypes ◽  
Hollywood Films ◽  
Psychological Warfare ◽  
Western Media

The present study discussed the feelings and sentiments that unquestionably exist in Western media particularly in U.S films against Islam and Muslims after Sep 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, and the reaction to them increased the hater against Muslims. Specifically, the assumption that Islam is characteristically fierce or that Muslims have a reopensity for psychological warfare. Since 9/11, explicit people have transformed Islamophobia into an industry. In this study, content analysis of some commercially successful U.S films is being provided that has perpetuated popularized Islamophobia. Specifically, Hollywood films i.e. American Sniper, The Hurt Locker, and The Dictator have been examined. Although the researcher’s analysis fundamentally talks about these movies inside the setting of twenty-first century Islamophobia, Additionally, it will also elaborate how relentless negative stereotypes are being drawn from decades against Muslims by the West with the help of media.

scholarly journals The Contributions of Systemic Functional Linguistics to Literary Text Analysis

2020 ◽  
Vol 3 (9) ◽  
pp. 81-86
Author(s):  
Arsen Nahum Pasaribu ◽  
Erika Sinambela ◽  
Sondang Manik
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Text Analysis ◽  
Systemic Functional Linguistics ◽  
Literary Text ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Literary Language ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Future Studies ◽  
Functional Linguistics

Systemic Functional Linguistics (SFL) refers to some kind of text analysis, including an analysis of literary language. Some research has verified the study of the literary text using this linguistic apparatus; however the use of SFL in literary text analysis is relatively rare. Therefore, this study investigated the contributions of SFL to literary text analysis. The data of the study were 20 scientific articles focusing on literary text analysis using SFL. The analysis used content analysis to expose the segments of the story analyzed and the components of SFL to analyze them. The findings showed that the method of analysis using SFL on the literary text has brought new perspectives to the researchers, and provided some possible future studies in literary works. Moreover, the study of literary texts is regarded not merely as interpretative practices but as explanatory categories for each segment of a literary text.

scholarly journals Feminist Content Analysis and Representative Characters

2000 ◽  
Author(s):  
Patricia Leavy
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Feminist Perspective ◽  
Visual Content ◽  
Fictional Character

This paper details textual, visual and audio-visual content analysis from both a general and feminist perspective. It provides a backstage look at how I took an abstract idea of analyzing the larger socio-cultural-political American 1990s/2000 context through a representative fictional character, Ally McBeal, and created a manageable project outline for how to achieve my research goals using content analysis in multiple way

scholarly journals FROM DIGITAL INFLUENCERS TO INFLUENCER-LABORATORIES. A CASE STUDY OF LIL MIQUELA

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elias Cunha Bitencourt ◽  
Grégori da Costa Castelhano ◽  
Catarina Lopes
Keyword(s):  
Social Networks ◽  
Content Analysis ◽  
Business Intelligence ◽  
Digital Marketing ◽  
Fictional Character ◽  
Digital Platforms ◽  
Media Companies ◽  
Modeling Techniques ◽  
Digital Methods

This research focuses on an emerging influencer category called CGI influencers. CGI influencers are fictional characters created with computer modeling techniques that have profiles on social networks and sociomaterial trajectories built with the aid of digital marketing, business intelligence and media companies. As an empirical object, we chose Lil Miquela - "the robot influencer", one of the most successful examples of this genre of micro celebrity on Instagram. Our main goal was to map the ways in which Miquela acts on Instagram and to find traces that allow us to explore better the interrelationship between the strategies adopted by Miquela's creators team and her appropriations of Instagram affordances that shapes the ways in which she acts both as a fictional character and as a digital influencer. We extracted 1089 posts available in Miquela’s feed up to June 2021and used content analysis and mixed digital methods techniques to explore the data. We observed three ways of acting (practices) that are characteristic of Miquela and operate interdependently: (a) The Fictional Character, (b) The Experiment and (c) The Influencer. These findings could suggest that the three versions of Miquela act as an experimental model of what we here call “influencer-laboratories”: a type of digital influencer for which the influencer itself acts as a controlled experiment used to investigate which sociomaterial arrangements create conditions that favor the production of online influence on digital platforms.

scholarly journals NARRATIVE PERSPECTIVE IN EDGAR POЕ’S POETICS: A LINGUISTIC ASPECT

2019 ◽  
pp. 84-91
Author(s):  
Н. А. Марущак
Keyword(s):  
Literary Criticism ◽  
Edgar Allan Poe ◽  
Literary Texts ◽  
Structural Elements ◽  
Detective Novel ◽  
Narrative Perspective ◽  
Empirical Research Methods ◽  
The Aesthetic ◽  
Poetic Texts ◽  
Linguistic Aspect

Edgar Allan Poe is an American poet, prose writer, essayist, literary editor and critic. The author’s works are mainly looked at from the perspective of literary criticism when studies, among other aspects, are aimed at exploring the aesthetic views of the author, the influence of his works on formation of symbolism in late 19 — early 20 centuries as well as the diversity of structural elements of the detective novel genre. Additionally, the philosophy of Poe’s consciousness is explored, and biographical facts of the author’s life are carefully analysed. In its turn, this article systematizes the existing approaches to the study of poetics aiming at outlining specific features of poetics of Poe. A focus is made on the use of combined methodology that includes both stylistic analysis and empirical research methods. In this article poetics is treated as a system of the author’s linguistic and conceptual preferences together with the ways of expressing the content of the text. This approach is applied to the study of both poetry and prose, and the research of the author’s poetics is understood as a detailed analysis of not only poetry or prose separately, but as a view of a comprehensive system of texts that consist of a plot, a narrator, characters, specific settings, etc. In this research the nature of interaction of specific elements of Poe’s poetics as well as the peculiarities of narrative perspective in the author’s works are examined. In doing so, its components, specifically the author’s idiolect and idiostyle, are comprehensively considered by way of integration of various methods and approaches. The conclusion is made about narrative character of Poe’s poetic texts as their important feature. Narrative perspective is understood as the connection between the character and his relations with social surroundings described in the text. The factors that influence narrative difference between literary texts are outlined. Such notions as shift of perspective and focalization are clarified.

Service redundancy in fine dining: evidence from Taiwan

2019 ◽  
Vol 31 (2) ◽  
pp. 830-854 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sheng-Hshiung Tsaur ◽  
Chang-Hua Yen
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Environmental Factors ◽  
Design Methodology ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Service Excellence ◽  
Customer Delight ◽  
Service Behavior ◽  
Depth Interviews

Purpose Service excellence has been recognized as a crucial means of achieving customer delight. Several recent studies have argued that redundant services may be perceived as unnecessary by customers; however, few studies have explored the construct of service redundancy. This study aims to identify and classify service redundancy in the foodservice industry. Design/methodology/approach This qualitative study conducted in-depth interviews with 72 participants, namely, 36 customers and 36 managers of fine dining restaurants in Taiwan. Content analysis of the data yielded the classification of service redundancy. Findings This study determined 16 categories of service redundancy categorized under three themes: service behavior, service regulations and environmental factors. Furthermore, six causes and four consequences of service redundancy were identified. Research limitations/implications Customers and managers of fine dining restaurants were interviewed; thus, the findings may not be fully generalizable to service redundancy in other restaurant types. Originality/value The contribution of this research is the construction of a model of service redundancy, which could serve as a theoretical foundation for further examination of service redundancy and the relationships between the related constructs.

scholarly journals The LIS Discipline or Retrieval Of Information: A Theoretical Viewpoint

10.28945/3363 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gholamreza Fadaie
Keyword(s):  
Content Analysis ◽  
Theoretical Basis ◽  
Theoretical Foundation ◽  
Scientific Discipline ◽  
Main Approach ◽  
Good Basis ◽  
The Subject

In this article the author argues that LIS has suffered from lack of theoretical foundation. Recently many experts have tried to find a theoretical basis for the subject. Nevertheless they are not satisfied yet and they have not achieved to a consensus. The author argues that it is because they stood on a wrong foot. Content analysis is the main approach to this paper. The author believes that there may be found a powerful theoretical basis for LIS through the retrieval of information and knowledge. The value of this argument is that LIS may obtain a good basis on subject, problems and principles. The author although has had a definition which is newly published (2008) now has changed his mind and proposed a new one. He argues that according to traditional teachings that every scientific discipline must bear a subject, objective and problems, with this new definition all are present and can be well justified.

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