Il ragno e il grattacielo. Lo spettacolo e la catastrofe
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https://doi.org/10.13129/2281-8138/2013.0.160-177Parole chiave:
Spiderman, show society, 9/11, image, catastrophe, metropolisAbstract
The paper framework aims to be a reasoning between two media images, set in a time span covering almost half a century: Spiderman’s debut in the “cartoon” medium (1962) and what is probably the first “narrative” elaboration on 9/11 produced by the great cultural industry machine (Straczynski J. M, Romita J. JR., [December] 2001). This paper offers a genealogy of the superhero genre, and discusses the internal reasoning of a medium which, having metropolis, image and seriality as its constituents, summarizes and maybe discloses contemporary societies’ dynamics. Show and catastrophe, under this perspective, are perhaps only logical and ordinary consequences.
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