{"id":1627,"date":"2005-01-12T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-01-12T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/localhost\/wptest\/2005\/01\/12\/the-development-of-alternative-heroes-in-film-and-graphic-novels\/"},"modified":"2005-01-12T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-01-12T00:00:00","slug":"the-development-of-alternative-heroes-in-film-and-graphic-novels","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/2005\/01\/12\/the-development-of-alternative-heroes-in-film-and-graphic-novels\/","title":{"rendered":"The Development of Alternative Heroes in Film and Graphic Novels"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Aim: To discover why certain types of heroes are popular in films, animation and graphic novels, and why we are attracted to such qualities. Method: Analysing some of the more interesting and obscure characters to ascertain why people are attracted to more nihilistic, free-thinking traits. To do this I will look at ideas such as nihilism, escapism and boredom, and correlate them with research into transcendence, innocence, naivety, and rebelliousness. Characters explored will include Roman Dirge\u2019s Lenore, Jhonen Vasquez\u2019s Johnny The Homicidal Maniac (pictured above), the residents of Sobriety Straight in Dame Darcy\u2019s Meat Cake, and the Norse God Loki who features in The Mask. Sources: The Modern Stranger &#8211; Lesley D. Harman, Comic Book Nation &#8211; Wright, Dame Darcy\u2019s Meat Cake Compilation &#8211; Dame Darcy, JTHM \u2013 Jhonen Vasquez, Lenore: Noogies \u2013 Roman Dirge.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jolene Laurie, 2005, Stage 3<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8792,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[429,22,123],"tags":[153,98,187],"class_list":["post-1627","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-429","category-abstracts","category-stage-3-abstracts","tag-heroism","tag-literature","tag-nihilism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8792"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1627"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1627\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ncl.ac.uk\/philosophy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}