Superheroes Quiz 1 Flashcards
Research Question
contemporary superheroes in films and tv
Golden Age
1930s comics related to economy, US getting out of Great Depression, kids had extra money to spend on comics, heroes based on chemicals and real life events and novels
Silver Age
Time period where audiences started to learn about radiation and radiation started to be used in hero origin stories, X+radiation=superheroes
Where are original comics from?
classical literature, pulp fiction, based on popular literature
Frederick Wertham
wrote the book The Seduction of the Innocent which was called the second red scare and there were a lot of communists included in American media
Why DC over Marvel?
DC was based on actual events and stories and not just because of chemicals and radiation
What is The Splash?
Panel page, larger and different in shape, first thing you see in old comics and included somewhere in the beginning in new comics, includes hero’s name in big letter, description of story, and both author’s names
Why 2 authors?
One for graphics, one for story
Retcon
retroactive continuity, take same character come up with new origin story with new civilian identity, powers may alter, often used when original heroes die off and they remake them and make popular again
Gardner Fox
created Jay Garrick’s Flash, didn’t want his Flash to be forgotten so he created the multiverse
Character attributes
powers, suits, where they live, they’re friends, social network
Adaptation Theory
focuses on when you change content from one medium to another, books to movies
Single Composite Character
made up of multiple parts; Superman is some aspects of Doc Savage and other characters, multiple source character
Multiple Cognate Character
single source character, The Flash is reincarnated from Winged Mercury, and Hermes, and Quicksilver, they are all cognates/siblings
Fiction/genre
category or type of literature
Convention
characteristics of the culture in films
4 conventions of fiction
setting, character, plot, narration
Setting
time, place, world building (how do people live in that time and place/how they dress, routines, type of work, recreation, transportation used, food eaten, tech available)
Character
protagonist, antagonist, allies, static, dynamic, flat character, round character, stock character
Plot
5 stages, exposition, rising action, climax, falling action, resolution
Narration
4 main perspectives, 1st person, 2nd person, 3rd person, omniscient narrator, limited omniscient narrator, reliable narrator, unreliable narrator
Protagonist
hero/main character/character narrator follows around
Antagonist
villain/someone against protagonist/opposes protagonist
Allies
people around protagonist and antagonist
Static
character that never changes
Dynamic
character that often changes because of events that happen during plot
Flat
not psychologically developed, know nothing about them serve function in story and then is gone
Round
psychologically well developed, we understand why they do what they do, past experiences influenced their present, thinking process
Stock
character based on stereotype
Exposition
introduction, background, backstory
Rising Action
protagonist and antagonist meet for the first time on friendly terms and then they have an argument that builds into a big deal
Climax
turning point, major confrontation between an antagonist
Falling Action
consequences of climax, protagonist and antagonist and their respective allies
Resolution
final or end stage of what happens to protagonist and antagonist/closure, living happily ever after
In Medias Res
flashback, old variation of plot, inserted in the middle of rising action, telling the story out of chronological order
Rising Action Expands
second variation of plot, rising action expands and falling action contracts
1st person
refer to themselves with first person pronouns, I, we, me, mine
2nd person
refers to themselves in second person pronouns, you
3rd person
refer to themselves in third person pronouns, he, she, his, her, them
Omniscient narrator
all knowing narrator
Limited Omniscient Narrator
has limitations because they must obey laws of physics
Reliable Narrator
unbiased, no exaggeration, trustworthy
Unreliable Narrator
usually the villain and they may lie, feel guilty, trick reader, possible mental illness, substance use
