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Myth, Metatext, Continuity and Cataclysm in Dc Comics’ Crisis on Infinite Earths
WORLDS WILL LIVE, WORLDS WILL DIE: MYTH, METATEXT, CONTINUITY AND CATACLYSM IN DC COMICS’ CRISIS ON INFINITE EARTHS Adam C. Murdough A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS August 2006 Committee: Angela Nelson, Advisor Marilyn Motz Jeremy Wallach ii ABSTRACT Angela Nelson, Advisor In 1985-86, DC Comics launched an extensive campaign to revamp and revise its most important superhero characters for a new era. In many cases, this involved streamlining, retouching, or completely overhauling the characters’ fictional back-stories, while similarly renovating the shared fictional context in which their adventures take place, “the DC Universe.” To accomplish this act of revisionist history, DC resorted to a text-based performative gesture, Crisis on Infinite Earths. This thesis analyzes the impact of this singular text and the phenomena it inspired on the comic-book industry and the DC Comics fan community. The first chapter explains the nature and importance of the convention of “continuity” (i.e., intertextual diegetic storytelling, unfolding progressively over time) in superhero comics, identifying superhero fans’ attachment to continuity as a source of reading pleasure and cultural expressivity as the key factor informing the creation of the Crisis on Infinite Earths text. The second chapter consists of an eschatological reading of the text itself, in which it is argued that Crisis on Infinite Earths combines self-reflexive metafiction with the ideologically inflected symbolic language of apocalypse myth to provide DC Comics fans with a textual "rite of transition," to win their acceptance for DC’s mid-1980s project of self- rehistoricization and renewal. -
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The Legal Battles of GI
Volume 6 Issue 1 Article 2 1999 The Legal Battles of G.I. Joe: The Jurisprudence of Distinctive Fingernails, Action Figures, Ninjas and Distinguished Marines A. Jack Guggenheim Follow this and additional works at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/mslj Part of the Entertainment, Arts, and Sports Law Commons, and the Intellectual Property Law Commons Recommended Citation A. J. Guggenheim, The Legal Battles of G.I. Joe: The Jurisprudence of Distinctive Fingernails, Action Figures, Ninjas and Distinguished Marines, 6 Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports L.J. 15 (1999). Available at: https://digitalcommons.law.villanova.edu/mslj/vol6/iss1/2 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Jeffrey S. Moorad Sports Law Journal by an authorized editor of Villanova University Charles Widger School of Law Digital Repository. Guggenheim: The Legal Battles of G.I. Joe: The Jurisprudence of Distinctive F THE LEGAL BATTLES OF G.I. JOE: THE JURISPRUDENCE OF DISTINCTIVE FINGERNAILS, ACTION FIGURES, NINJAS AND DISTINGUISHED MARINES A. JACK GUGGENHEIM* I. INTRODUCTION For over three decades, the toy action figure known as G.I. Joe has added adventure and patriotism to childhood playtime. Over the years, G.I. Joe has been the subject of both sandbox and legal battles. The resulting judicial decisions have helped shape and de- velop American jurisprudence, particularly the area of intellectual property law. With G.I. Joe gearing up for his thirty-fifth anniver- sary, and with the introduction of two new books which chronicle the development of G.I. -
Child's Play: Investigating the Genre of Toy Safety Recall Notices Christopher Toth Iowa State University
Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Graduate Theses and Dissertations Dissertations 2009 Child's play: Investigating the genre of toy safety recall notices Christopher Toth Iowa State University Follow this and additional works at: https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd Part of the English Language and Literature Commons, and the Rhetoric and Composition Commons Recommended Citation Toth, Christopher, "Child's play: Investigating the genre of toy safety recall notices" (2009). Graduate Theses and Dissertations. 10283. https://lib.dr.iastate.edu/etd/10283 This Dissertation is brought to you for free and open access by the Iowa State University Capstones, Theses and Dissertations at Iowa State University Digital Repository. It has been accepted for inclusion in Graduate Theses and Dissertations by an authorized administrator of Iowa State University Digital Repository. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Child’s play: Investigating the genre of toy safety recall notices by Christopher Toth A dissertation submitted to the graduate faculty in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of DOCTOR OF PHILOSOPHY Major: Rhetoric and Professional Communication Program of Study Committee: Donna S. Kienzler, Major Professor Barbara Blakely Margaret Graham Debra Marquart Susan Cross Iowa State University Ames, Iowa 2009 Copyright © Christopher Toth, 2009. All rights reserved. ii iii iv Figure 1.1: Example of a toy safety recall notice for a burn and fire hazard ....................... 1 Figure 1.2: Physical location of safety recalls at one box-chain retail store ......................... 3 Figure 1.3: Screenshot of CPSC toy safety recall list............................................................... 8 Figure 1.4: Three safety signs warning against intestinal blockage, fire, and lead paint hazards ........................................................................................................................................ -
Masters of the Universe: Action Figures, Customization and Masculinity
MASTERS OF THE UNIVERSE: ACTION FIGURES, CUSTOMIZATION AND MASCULINITY Eric Sobel A Thesis Submitted to the Graduate College of Bowling Green State University in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of MASTER OF ARTS December 2018 Committee: Montana Miller, Advisor Esther Clinton Jeremy Wallach ii ABSTRACT Montana Miller, Advisor This thesis places action figures, as masculinely gendered playthings and rich intertexts, into a larger context that accounts for increased nostalgia and hyperacceleration. Employing an ethnographic approach, I turn my attention to the under-discussed adults who comprise the fandom. I examine ways that individuals interact with action figures creatively, divorced from children’s play, to produce subjective experiences, negotiate the inherently consumeristic nature of their fandom, and process the gender codes and social stigma associated with classic toylines. Toy customizers, for example, act as folk artists who value authenticity, but for many, mimicking mass-produced objects is a sign of one’s skill, as seen by those working in a style inspired by Masters of the Universe figures. However, while creativity is found in delicately manipulating familiar forms, the inherent toxic masculinity of the original action figures is explored to a degree that far exceeds that of the mass-produced toys of the 1980s. Collectors similarly complicate the use of action figures, as playfully created displays act as frames where fetishization is permissible. I argue that the fetishization of action figures is a stabilizing response to ever-changing trends, yet simultaneously operates within the complex web of intertexts of which action figures are invariably tied. To highlight the action figure’s evolving role in corporate hands, I examine retro-style Reaction figures as metacultural objects that evoke Star Wars figures of the late 1970s but, unlike Star Wars toys, discourage creativity, communicating through the familiar signs of pop culture to push the figure into a mental realm where official stories are narrowly interpreted. -
New Expression Youth Communication Chicago Collection
Columbia College Chicago Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago New Expression Youth Communication Chicago Collection December 2003 New Expression: December/January 2003 (Volume 26, Issue 9) Columbia College Chicago Follow this and additional works at: http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions Part of the Journalism Studies Commons This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 4.0 License. Recommended Citation Columbia College Chicago, "New Expression: December/January 2003 (Volume 26, Issue 9)" (2003). New Expression. 192. http://digitalcommons.colum.edu/ycc_newexpressions/192 This Article is brought to you for free and open access by the Youth Communication Chicago Collection at Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. It has been accepted for inclusion in New Expression by an authorized administrator of Digital Commons @ Columbia College Chicago. 2 New Expression Staff December 2003/January 2004 Managing Editor: AudreyGalo, Northside College Prep Metro Ed ito r: Brian Lewis, St. Ignatius General Staff: lan Bertorelll, Walter Payton College Prep; Christina Billy, Northside College Prep; Audriena Comeaux, Mother McAuley; Connie Diaz, St. Scholastica; Erna Dzafic, Amundsen; Kendra Fortenberry, Jones College Prep; Jocelyn Grove, Columbia College; Joi Hampton, Thornridge High School; Jesse Hall, Crane High School; Enol Hindi, Curie; Jacob Hogan, Brother Rice; Isis Jackson, Northside College Prep; Haamid Xavier Johnson, Georgetown University; Malissa McGivern. Columbia College; -
2014 Movies and Toys … Brought to You by the Toy Industry Association
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Existentialism of DC Comics' Superman
Word and Text Vol. VII 151 – 167 A Journal of Literary Studies and Linguistics 2017 Re-theorizing the Problem of Identity and the Onto- Existentialism of DC Comics’ Superman Kwasu David Tembo University of Edinburgh E-mail: [email protected] Abstract One of the central onto-existential tensions at play within the contemporary comic book superhero is the tension between identity and disguise. Contemporary comic book scholarship typically posits this phenomenon as being primarily a problem of dual identity. Like most comic book superheroes, superbeings, and costumed crime fighters who avail themselves of multiple identities as an essential part of their aesthetic and narratological repertoire, DC Comics character Superman is also conventionally aggregated in this analytical framework. While much scholarly attention has been directed toward the thematic and cultural tensions between two of the character’s best-known and most recognizable identities, namely ‘Clark Kent of Kansas’ and ‘Superman of Earth’, the character in question is in fact an identarian multiplicity consisting of three ‘identity-machines’: ‘Clark’, ‘Superman’, and ‘Kal-El of Krypton’. Referring to the schizoanalysis developed by the French theorists Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari in Anti- Oedipus. Capitalism and Schizophrenia (orig. 1972), as well as relying on the kind of narratological approach developed in the 1960s, this paper seeks to re-theorize the onto- existential tension between the character’s triplicate identities which the current scholarly interpretation of the character’s relationship with various concepts of identity overlooks. Keywords: Superman, identity, comic books, Deleuze and Guattari, schizoanalysis The Problem of Identity: Fingeroth and Dual Identities Evidenced by the work of contemporary comic book scholars, creators, and commentators, there is a tradition of analysis that typically understands the problem of identity at play in Superman, and most comic book superheroes by extension, as primarily a problem of duality. -
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Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls
NBER WORKING PAPER SERIES PRODUCT RECALLS, IMPERFECT INFORMATION, AND SPILLOVER EFFECTS: LESSONS FROM THE CONSUMER RESPONSE TO THE 2007 TOY RECALLS Seth M. Freedman Melissa Schettini Kearney Mara Lederman Working Paper 15183 http://www.nber.org/papers/w15183 NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH 1050 Massachusetts Avenue Cambridge, MA 02138 July 2009 We gratefully acknowledge the helpful comments of Severin Borenstein, Jonathan Guryan, Judy Hellerstein, Ginger Jin, Arik Levinson, Soohyung Lee, Nuno Limao, and Abigail Wozniak as well as seminar participants at the University of Maryland, Rotman School of Management, the Energy Institute at U.C. Berkeley, Georgetown, UC-Davis, UC-Irvine, and University of Michigan. We thank Danny Kim at NPD for answering our questions about the toy sales data and Kevin Mak at the Rotman Finance Lab for his assistance with assembling the stock price data. Molly Reckson provided capable research assistance. Financial support from the AIC Institute for Corporate Citizenship at the Rotman School of Management is gratefully acknowledged. The views expressed herein are those of the author(s) and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research. NBER working papers are circulated for discussion and comment purposes. They have not been peer- reviewed or been subject to the review by the NBER Board of Directors that accompanies official NBER publications. © 2009 by Seth M. Freedman, Melissa Schettini Kearney, and Mara Lederman. All rights reserved. Short sections of text, not to exceed two paragraphs, may be quoted without explicit permission provided that full credit, including © notice, is given to the source. Product Recalls, Imperfect Information, and Spillover Effects: ¸˛Lessons from the Consumer Response to the 2007 Toy Recalls Seth M. -
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Mattel Recalls About 9 Million Toys - WSJ.Com
Mattel Recalls About 9 Million Toys - WSJ.com August 14, 2007 11:20 a.m. EDT Mattel Recalls About 9 Million Toys DOW JONES REPRINTS This copy is for your personal, Latest Incident From China non-commercial use only. To order presentation-ready copies for Involves Cars, Magnet Toys distribution to your colleagues, clients or customers, use the Order By NICHOLAS CASEY and NICHOLAS ZAMISKA Reprints tool at the bottom of any August 14, 2007 11:20 a.m. article or visit: www.djreprints.com. Mattel Inc. announced its second big recall of Chinese-made toys in as • See a sample reprint in PDF many weeks, expanding a mounting crisis for the toy maker that could format. grow even more problematic as the holiday shopping season approaches. • Order a reprint of this article now. The toy-making giant issued recalls Tuesday for millions of toys that contain magnets that can be swallowed by children or could have lead paint. The recalls involve 7.3 million play sets, including Polly Pocket dolls and Batman action figures, and about 250,000 die-cast cars that contain lead paint. The action was announced on the company's Web site and at a news conference by the Consumer Product Safety Commission. (See Mattel's recall list1 and statement2.) Nancy A. Nord, acting CPSC chairman, said no injuries had been reported with any of the products involved in the new recall. Several injuries had been reported in an earlier Polly Pocket recall last November. "The scope of these recalls is intentionally large to prevent any injuries from occurring," she said.