1. Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority
Where the Wild Things Are (1963), by Maurice Sendak

2. Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority
The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach

3. Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority
The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach

4. Resistance/Agency/ Challenges to Authority
The Judge: An Untrue Tale (1969), by Harve Zemach

5. Samples of Popular Culture Use
Analyzing Modern Problems/Solutions
Watchmen (2009)
Serenity (2005)

6. Samples of Popular Culture Use
Historical/Perspectives: Views of the West
How the West Was Won (1962)
Dances With Wolves (1990)
Avatar (2009)

7. Samples of Popular Culture Use
Historical/Perspectives: War
Green Berets (1968)
Platoon (1986)

8. Samples of Popular Culture Use
Historical/Perspectives: Gender
Dr. No (1962)
Skyfall (2012)

9. Samples of Popular Culture Use
Academic value of unconventional sources: Comics
Importance of context
Importance of language/vocabulary

10. Use of Comics to Illustrate Issues of Body Image
Men are vastly overrepresented as characters in comic books
Male 82%
Female 18%
(data based on Marvel comic encyclopeia entries)

11. Body Type: height and weight
Male (average for white men)
5’10” lbs
For superheroes
65.4% 6’ or over
63% over 180
Female (average for white women)
5’5” lbs
66% 5’7” or taller
68% under 150 lbs

12. Batman
First appearance: 1939

13. Green Lantern
First appearance: 1940

14. Storm First appearance: Giant Size X-Men #1

15. Black Canary
First appearance: 1947

16. Double Dare
First appearance: 1999

17. Sample Curriculum: Film
Background/Context
Early Cold War – Events/Policies
Vietnam
History/Culture
French to American Involvement
Primary Documents
Perceptions of the War
Politician’s speeches
Soldiers’ memoirs
Film and the Vietnam War
Discussion of uses of popular culture first
Discussion of film clips

18. Sample Curriculum: Film
Green Berets (1968)
Platoon (1986)

19. Sample Curriculum - Comics
Background
Background/Context of War
Comics
Definition
Vocabulary
Comics and the Vietnam War
Iron Man
Man Thing
Discussion of Readings/Material

20. Comics and Politics
Definition of a comic: “Juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or produce an aesthetic response in the viewer.”
Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics, p 9

21. Comics vs. Cartoons

22. Definitions/Styles in Comics
Use of icons

23. Definitions/Styles in Comics
Use of icons

24. Definitions/Styles in Comics
Icons help characters seem universal
(The Adventures of Tin Tin, Herges)

25. Definitions/Styles in Comics
Panels/Gutters

26. Definitions/Styles in Comics
Panels/Gutters

27. Definitions/Styles in Comics
Panels/Gutters

28. Definitions/Styles in Comics
Panels/Gutters

29. Definitions/Styles in Comics
Panels/Gutters

30. Definitions/Styles in Comics
Closure

31. Definitions/Styles in Comics
Closure

32. Vietnam War – Iron Man

33. Vietnam War – Iron Man

34. Vietnam War – Iron Man

35. Vietnam War – Man Thing

36. Vietnam War – Man Thing

37. Vietnam War – Man Thing