Myths were generally about human limitations; superhero stories are about how humans can do anything. Stories post death of fox look really different.
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And obviously capitalist production is pretty different than oral story telling traditions
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But there is a huge and growing body of academic work on superhero films. Lots of ppl take them seriously!
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And lots of superhero films are bad and rote, is the truth. But lots of art is that.
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Also myths are not that great often! A lot of them are about how women who don’t let powerful men rape them deserve punishment, or about how challenging authority in any way is bad.
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They can be fun and weird too, but we shouldn’t just blanket accept any story as uncriticizable, IMO.
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I keep saying this same thing. We nerds won. We need to learn to relax and enjoy that. Yes, this was stuff for kids. That was fine! There are good things in stuff for kids. Just folks got way too attached.
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When you start using the definition I typically use for myths, super hero stories don't really fit (though I'm pretty sure I at one time used this framing too). I got this from the Extra Credits show. Not sure where they got it from but the thinking goes like this:
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Isn't there plenty of American (settler) lore/mythology? Paul Bunyan and John Henry off the top of my head.
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Paul Bunyan was made up by advertisers!
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