{"id":21,"date":"2014-04-27T08:05:05","date_gmt":"2014-04-27T08:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/?page_id=21"},"modified":"2016-07-14T09:47:20","modified_gmt":"2016-07-14T09:47:20","slug":"cultural-studies","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/non-fiction\/cultural-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Cultural Studies"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Boy and Girl Wonders:
\nRobin in Cultural Context<\/h3>\n
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Boy and Girl Wonders: Robin in cultural context<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“Explodes with new insights and information about Batman’s oft-neglected and marginalized sidekick.” –\u00a0Professor Henry Jenkins<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This long-form academic work\u00a0examines the storytelling traditions which came together to create Robin, and those pop figures which appeared in the years following Robin’s heyday. Through this exploration, the appeal Robin holds for disenfranchised audience groups becomes clear, as does the impact which these groups have had on the character’s evolution. Any revenue I make from\u00a0Boy and Girl Wonders: Robin in Cultural Context<\/em>\u00a0is donated to charities which help children in crisis.<\/p>\n

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Essay collections<\/h3>\n

\"The<\/a>
\nThe Girl Who Was On Fire\u00a0<\/em>is a collection of essays about the\u00a0Hunger Games<\/em> trilogy. My essay,\u00a0Your Heart Is a Weapon the Size of Your Fist: Love as a Political Act in the Hunger Games<\/em>, explores the way empathy, passion and personal loyalty are all rebellions against oppressive regimes.<\/p>\n

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\"Divergent<\/a>
\nDivergent Thinking<\/em> is a collection of essays about the\u00a0Divergent<\/em> trilogy. I contributed an analysis of the role familial bonds play in the series in my essay\u00a0They Injure Each Other in the Same Way.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n

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\"Antiheroes:\"A<\/a>
\nThese two collections include my essay\u00a0Damon Salvatore, Vampire Hunter<\/em>, which examines the tropes surrounding the figure of the vampire hunter in pop culture and how Damon fits within them.<\/p>\n

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\"Minutes<\/a>
\nMinutes to Midnight<\/em> is a collection of essays about\u00a0Watchmen<\/em>. My essay examines the roles that music plays in constructing the story, and its legacy in musical pop culture.<\/p>\n

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\"In<\/a>
\nIn the Hunt<\/em> is a collection of essays about the show\u00a0Supernatural<\/em>. My essay\u00a0Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Jo the Monster Killer<\/em>, compares and contrasts how\u00a0Buffy<\/em>‘s Buffy and\u00a0Supernatural<\/em>‘s Jo are each constructed by their texts, and what this means in a wider context of the horror genre.<\/p>\n

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\"Batman<\/a>
\nBatman Unauthorized\u00a0<\/em>includes my essay\u00a0Gotham’s First Family<\/span><\/em>, which breaks down Batman’s origin story into its individual parts and examines how different eras and creators have played with them.<\/p>\n

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\"The<\/a>
\nThe Neil Gaiman Reader<\/em> includes my essay\u00a0Pink and Blue: Gender in The Sandman<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

  Boy and Girl Wonders: Robin in Cultural Context “Explodes with new insights and information about Batman’s oft-neglected and marginalized sidekick.” –\u00a0Professor Henry Jenkins This long-form academic work\u00a0examines the storytelling traditions which came together to create Robin, and those pop figures which appeared in the years following Robin’s heyday. Through this exploration, the appeal Robin… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":6,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-21","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":727,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/21\/revisions\/727"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/6"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.maryborsellino.com\/mary\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}