Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority

• Where the Wild Things Are (1963), by Maurice Sendak

Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority

• The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach

Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority

• The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach

Resistance/Agency/Challenges to Authority

• The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach

Samples of Popular Culture Use

• Analyzing Modern Problems/Solutions– Watchmen (2009)– Serenity (2005)

Samples of Popular Culture Use• Historical/Perspectives: Views of the West• How the West Was Won (1962)• Dances With Wolves (1990)• Avatar (2009)

Samples of Popular Culture Use

• Historical/Perspectives: War– Green Berets (1968)– Platoon (1986)

Samples of Popular Culture Use

• Historical/Perspectives: Gender– Dr. No (1962)– Skyfall (2012)

Samples of Popular Culture Use

• Academic value of unconventional sources: Comics– Importance of context– Importance of language/vocabulary

Use of Comics to Illustrate Issues of Body Image

• Men are vastly overrepresented as characters in comic books

• Male 82%• Female 18%– (data based on Marvel comic encyclopeia entries)

Body Type: height and weight

• Male (average for white men)– 5’10” 180lbs

• For superheroes– 65.4% 6’ or over

• 63% over 180• Female (average for white women)– 5’5” 140 lbs

• For superheroes– 66% 5’7” or taller– 68% under 150 lbs

Batman

First appearance: 1939

Green Lantern

First appearance: 1940

Storm First appearance: Giant Size X-Men #1

Black CanaryFirst appearance: 1947

Double Dare

First appearance: 1999

Sample Curriculum: Film• Background/Context

– Early Cold War – Events/Policies– Vietnam

• History/Culture• French to American Involvement

• Primary Documents– Perceptions of the War

• Politician’s speeches• Soldiers’ memoirs

• Film and the Vietnam War– Discussion of uses of popular culture first

• Discussion of film clips

Sample Curriculum: Film

• Green Berets (1968)• Platoon (1986)

Sample Curriculum - Comics

• Background– Background/Context of War– Comics• Definition• Vocabulary

• Comics and the Vietnam War– Iron Man– Man Thing

• Discussion of Readings/Material

Comics and Politics

• Definition of a comic: “Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.”– Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, p 9

Comics vs. Cartoons

Definitions/Styles in Comics

• Use of icons

Definitions/Styles in Comics

• Use of icons

Definitions/Styles in Comics

• Icons help characters seem universal– (The Adventures of Tin Tin, Herges)

Definitions/Styles in Comics

• Panels/Gutters

Definitions/Styles in Comics

• Panels/Gutters

Definitions/Styles in Comics

• Panels/Gutters

Definitions/Styles in Comics

• Panels/Gutters

Definitions/Styles in Comics• Panels/Gutters

Definitions/Styles in Comics

• Closure

Definitions/Styles in Comics

• Closure

Vietnam War – Iron Man

Vietnam War – Iron Man

Vietnam War – Iron Man

Vietnam War – Man Thing

Vietnam War – Man Thing

Vietnam War – Man Thing