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"Yeah? Well, My God Has A Hammer!": Myth-Taken Identity In The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jeff Massey Ph.D., Brian Cogan Ph.D.
"Yeah? Well, My God Has A Hammer!": Myth-Taken Identity In The Marvel Cinematic Universe, Jeff Massey Ph.D., Brian Cogan Ph.D.
Faculty Works: ENG (1995-2016)
With box office returns of well over a billion dollars worldwide, The Avengers (2012) clearly struck a chord with audiences beyond Marvel's loyal comic book fan-base. The script is tight, the action intense, the production values high, and the casting stellar, but are these elements enough to warrant the insane popularity of one superhero film amidst a Hollywood landscape already saturated with spandex-clad do-gooders and four-color villainy? As many film critic has lamented of late, we currently live in an age of superhero cinema. Combined, the "Big Two," Marvel and DC, have overseen more than 30 live-action superhero films featuring …
Skin And Smoke, Kelly Anne Baker
Skin And Smoke, Kelly Anne Baker
MSU Graduate Theses
My thesis consists of the first ten chapters of a horror novel, entitled Skin and Smoke. My novel focuses on the character of Violet Masterson and her attempts to create her own identify and reconcile with her family's past actions. Violet lives in the small, recently unincorporated town of Nuovita in central Washington. Following her grandmother's death, she must face the paranormal events occurring in Nuovita, while her father leaves on an unknown journey. My thesis addresses themes of loss, identity, and revenge. In Joseph Campbell's The Hero with a Thousand Faces, he proposes that the monomyth ends with the …