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19 Cards in this Set
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JOHN G. CAWELTI
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formulas enable the audience to explore in fantasy the boundary between the permitted and the forbidden and to experience in a carefully controlled way the possibility of stepping across this boundary
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JOHN G. CAWELTI
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Villains - to express, explore and finally to reject those actions which are forbidden, but which because of certain other cultural patterns, are strongly tempting.
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B.J OROPEZA
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super heroes may be considered in this sense a pop- cultural implementation of religious premises, but as such they point to something greater than themselves.
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B.J OROPEZA
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super heroes remind us to the realisations that society cannot evidicate evil on its own, it needs the help of a powerful yet godly redeemer
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B.J OROPEZA
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super hero epic battles give us a sense of how to prepare for calamity, or at least they give us a future comfort in knowing that goodness will finally prevail over evil, especially if our personal world is not going to well.
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B.J OROPEZA
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book of revelation tells a similar story related to the messianic mission
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B.J. OROPEZA
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women gives birth to son that is meant to rule all nations, red dragon intends to eat her child, but her child escapes. Michael and angels fight against dragon which is the devil - dragon is defeated as a victory chant of salvation is proclaimed by those who overcome him b the blood of the lamb (christ). The dragon is then cast down to earth, and tries to persecute the woman, who is protected in the wilderness, until the grand - finale (revelation 12)
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B.J. OROPEZA
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The battle of armageddon takes place with the return of the kings of kings who raises all believers from the dead, and defeats satan, and death itself. (Revelation 19-2-; 1 Corinthias 15: 20-28)
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B.J. OROPEZA
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examples: star wars, harry potter, terminator
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B.J OROPEZA
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super heroes are 'childhood dream self'
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James E. Combs
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popular culture since the depression has preferred heroes who were in the tradition of morality. Businessmen became the villain, who because of greed, undermined the realisation of the moral community.
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SCAPEGOATS
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jews (holocaust) and jesus - become heroes and villains
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monster and god similarities
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godzila
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monsters, heroes and villains
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they all can't exist without each other.
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SAMSON AND DELILAH
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HAIR HERO/ violence - redemptive
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violence
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all good heroes commit violence, die a hero or live long enough to see yourself becoming a villain (batman quote) - batman scapegoats himself.
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V FOR VENDETTA
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totaleterian rebelión, wants anarchy, blows up houses of parliament, masks went into mass production, ironic not anarchy.
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CANADA
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one day police man strike (1969) montreal and everything resulted in crime - the purge.
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we are normal
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because the order heroes and villains give us in popular culture
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