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Today in Spencer’s lecture we were looking at Scott Bukatman - Superheroes and City Scapes. Special Effects and Supermen in the 20th Century As advanced technologies have proliferated, popular culture has turned the fear of instability into the thrill of topsy-turvydom, often by presenting images and experiences of wheightless escape from controlled space. Superheroes and the city in films and comics superheroes tend to live in the city instead of in the quiet countrysides. The mainly tend to live in NYC, if they were real there would be an awful lot of superheroes in NYC. Core Proposition American superheroes encapsulated and embodied the same utopian aspirations of modernity as the cities themselves.    Themes Of Analysis / Comic superheros psychological / sociological:   Superheroes as male power fatasies Displacement of sexual energy into aggression Negotiators of complex multiple roles Secret identities, outsider status etc. In comics, order exists only at the level of narrative, Candy coloured costumes ... dynamic, irregular layouts, movement between frame boundaries, fragmented time, sound effects. Although I was unable to attend this lecture I was able to use the Spencer’s powerpoint to get a sense of what was covered. As I was reading the lecture notes it reminded me of The Big Bang Theory, I think it might have been because it was talking about comic books and TBBT is heavily focused about the groups love for comic books. It also made me realise that most superheroes are always deemed to be average males who magically either discover they are superheroes or they drink / eat something that give them superpowers. The fact that the superheroes are always deemed to be ‘heroes’ and use their powers for good is something that we’ve always been brought up to think that superheroes are good and that the superheroes who are villains that use their powers in a negative way are the bad ones. However shouldn’t they both be deemed as bad? As the ‘superhero’ is always fighting the bad one and we’ve always been told not to fight. Although comics and superheroes are fictional characters they have been around for years and no matter what type of person you are you would have been engaged with a superhero wither it’s through a comic: film or game they play an important part of allowing our imagination grow and will always make people wonder what powers they’d wish to have if they could have a super power.