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Infinite Crisis In Ozymandias' And Batman's Republic: The Dystopian Visions Of Frank Miller And Alan Moore On Social Order And Civil Liberties, Luis Gomez Romero
Infinite Crisis In Ozymandias' And Batman's Republic: The Dystopian Visions Of Frank Miller And Alan Moore On Social Order And Civil Liberties, Luis Gomez Romero
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
The word crisis derives from the Greek , ***** “judgment.” Interestingly, DC Comics published in 1985 a twelve-part series titled Crisis on Infinite Earths whose main goal was to clean up the chaos of narrative parallel universes which DC’s writers had established over the past forty-five years, in order to start afresh with one single story continuity. While a miserable fail as an attempt at simplification, Crisis on Infinite Earths still inaugurated an era of multifaceted, elaborate and rich superhero comic books. Frank Miller’s Batman: The Dark Knight Returns (1986) and Alan Moore’s Watchmen (1986) are the first instances of …
Randolph Hughes And Alan Chisholm: Romanticism, Classicism And Fascism, Gregory Melleuish
Randolph Hughes And Alan Chisholm: Romanticism, Classicism And Fascism, Gregory Melleuish
Faculty of Law, Humanities and the Arts - Papers (Archive)
During the 1930s Alan Chisholm and Randolph Hughes were located at the antipodes from each other, even as they shared many of the same aesthetic and political preoccupations. Hughes was an academic at King's College, London until he resigned his post and sought a living from his writings; Chisholm taught French at the University of Melbourne, rising eventually to the rank of professor. Separated by thousands of miles, they corresponded regularly, exchanging letters covering aesthetic, literary and political topics, as they bemoaned the state of the world around them. Outlooks were shared at a variety of levels. Both were dissatisfied: …