Superhero Entertainments

开始时间: 04/22/2022 持续时间: 8 weeks

所在平台: CourseraArchive 课程类别: 其他类别 大学或机构: National University of Singapore（新加坡国立大学）

课程主页: https://www.coursera.org/course/superheroes

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This course examines the social and cultural significance of superhero comic books and films. Particular attention will be paid to the origins of superheroes in comic books and the manner in which the major two companies, DC and Marvel, positioned those heroes in blockbuster movies commencing with Superman in 1978. The course will trace the antecedents and rise of comic book superheroes, discuss their various incarnations in other media forms like radio and television, and culminate in a discussion of the wave of recent superhero films up to and including films released in 2015. In addition to discussing the characters and their history the course will cover some of the strategies companies have adopted in licensing and marketing their superheroes.

课程大纲

1. Origin of Superheroes

• Why Superhero Entertainments: Comics and beyond
  
• Development of Comic Strips
  
• Development of pulps and Science Fiction
  
• Origins of Comic Books
  

2. Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Captain Marvel and the rest.

• The Rise: 1938-1941
  
• The Ascendancy: 1941-1945
  
• Fall from Grace 1946-1956
  

3. Superheroes Across Mediums (1938-1958)

• Comic Strips
  
• Radio
  
• Animation
  
• Movie Serials
  
• Television
  

4. Superhero Resurgence (1960-1980)

• Stan Lee, Jack Kirby, Steve Ditko, and the rebirth of Superheroes
  
• Heroes with Problems
  
• Superheroes Plus (Dracula, Kung Fu etc)
  

5. On Screen: From TV to Movies and Back Again (1960s to present)

• Batman TV Series
  
• Superfriends and other animation
  
• Superman: The movie
  
• Wonder Woman
  
• Tim Burton’s Batman
  
• The Flash
  
• Lois and Clark
  
• Smallville
  
• Aquaman
  
• Arrow
  

6. Making Movies the Marvel Way

• Blade
  
• X-Men
  
• Iron Man, Captain America, Thor, The Avengers
  

7. Authors and Fans

• Who owns Superman and why?
  
• Who owns Spiderman?
  

8. Satires and Send Ups

• Superduperman
  
• Howard the Duck 
  
• Robert Mayer’s Superfolks
  
• The Incredibles
  
• Sky High
  
• Drawn Together
  
• Mystery Men
  
• Landis’s Death of Superman
  
• Megamind
  

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