name for themselves in the competitive market. Mirage Comics created Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles which was enough to establish them as one of the most successful independent publishers of the era. Another company who shot to fame at this time was Dark Horse comics who produced three comic books which went on to become cult favourties – Hellboy‚ Star Wars and Sin City. DC Comics made two major
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order is taken away chaos takes over. In Christopher Nolan’s‚ The Dark Knight (2008) there are many cinematic techniques which are used to highlight the mayhem that the Joker creates throughout the film. The Joker is a character in the film that does not care about the reward or the financial gain that most criminals want after they commit a crime‚ he just wants to kill and destroy everything for no apparent reason. In The Dark Knight there are many cinematography techniques used however there are
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The Dark Knight (Costume) Christopher Nolan’s distinctive use of Joker’s costume is greatly significant to the narrative of “The Dark Knight”; it provides insight to the iconic super villain of “The Joker” and highlights how this portrayal is modernised in comparison to past ones‚ showing how the super villain role has changed in superhero films. As with Jokers in all media types Health Ledger keeps with classic green‚ orange and purple attire. This strong‚ bright colour use is used to contrast
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The Dark Knight Rises (2012) Cast: Christian Bale‚ Tom Hardy‚ Anne Hathaway‚ and Joseph Gordon-Levitt Director: Christopher Nolan Synopsis: Christian Bale stars as both the classic caped crusader and his billionaire alter-ego‚ Bruce Wayne. In this third installment of Christopher Nolan’s Batman films‚ Bruce Wayne no longer feels that the City of Gotham needs a hero and goes on a secluded hiatus. However‚ when a new villain‚ Bane (Tom Hardy)‚ threatens Gotham City‚ Wayne dons his cape and
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What is the significance of being a hero? In Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns‚ I would like to address the theme of rebirth and its relevance to Batman. Batman’s rebirth can be seen through‚ his physical changes‚ superhero power struggle‚ and his death. Batman’s rebirth is witnessed by his initial physical changes. For example‚ Alfred points out‚ “Master Bruce. Whatever happened to your moustache” (20‚ 7).This physical change is what hints at a different stage or “rebirth” in Bruce Wayne
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white knight of Gotham‚ district attorney Harvey Dent. A pawn in the Joker’s game‚ he loses his fiancé and half his face in an orchestrated explosion. Dent‚ the once heroic emblem of justice‚ is perverted by a demented individual to his ultimate physical and ethical demise‚ culminating in a homicidal rampage and eventual death. As Dent himself articulates‚ “[y]ou either die a hero‚ or live long enough to see yourself become the villain” (Nolan). Harvey Dent in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight is
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2.1. Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA): 2.1.1. What is CDA? 2.1.1.1. Critical‚ discourse and analysis Before beginning to address what CDA is‚ it is important to be clear about what is meant by the concepts of critical‚ discourse‚ and analysis: The notion of ‘critical’ is primarily associated with the critical theory of the Frankfurt School where social theory should be oriented towards critiquing and changing society. In CDA‚ the concept of ‘critical’ is applied
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Chris Bulcaen makes a brief introduction to the study of Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA). CDA intends to use social-theoretical method in discourse analysis and is primarily linguistically based (Blommaet &ump; Bulcaen‚ 2000‚ p.447). It intends to analyze the structural relationships of dominance‚ discrimination‚ power and control through a textual study (Blommaet &ump; Bulcaen‚ 2000‚ p.448). Based on the assumption that social discourse is constructed and socially conditioned‚ CDA explores the power
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critical discourse analysis on North American media coverage of the World Indigenous Games. Jiwani and Young (2006) offer a helpful framework for a methodical approach to exploring Indigenous representations in media. In their article on the missing and murdered women of Vancouver’s Eastside‚ they studied 128 newspaper articles over the course of five years in order to uncover patterns on how Indigenous people are framed in the media. The article clearly states that the sites for analysis were selected
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Critical Discourse Analysis INTRODUCTION Naturism is an alternative discourse‚ as consciously and systematically proposes a vision of reality‚ an order of things and a logic of social relations that diverge from the hegemonic ideology. In this sense‚ this naturalism is political‚ if we understand the political and ethical proposal of interaction and social action. There arises the need for its exponents to adopt discursive strategies that allow them to justify it. Then drove the hypothesis
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