... Left It Entirely in My Hands. Introduction: A Rorschach Test. PART ONE: THE POLITICS OF POWER: WHO WATCHES THE WATCHMEN? 1 The Superman Exists, and He's American: ... What's So Goddamned Funny? The Comedian and Rorschach on Life's Way ( Taneli Kukkonen ). CONTRIBUTORS: Who Writes about the Watchmen? I N DEX: After the Masquerade.
Tópico(s): Contemporary Literature and Criticism
2010 - Association of College and Research Libraries | Choice Reviews Online
... the faceless character's relationship to the influential Watchmen series and to its central protagonist Rorschach. 4 Although the novel is saturated with fantasy, ... Gibbons's creation of Rorschach. Moore claims that Rorschach is specifically based on the faceless character called 'The Question' from Steve Ditko's Ditko, Steve. 1967. Blue Beetle 1, Derby: Charlton Comics. [Google Scholar] Charlton Comics, a character who first appeared in the June 1967 issue of Blue Beetle. Nearly all of the characters that appear in Watchmen were appropriated from Charlton Comics. The incorporation of ...
Tópico(s): Literature, Film, and Journalism Analysis
2010 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies
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Tópico(s): Psychological Testing and Assessment
2015 - Cambridge University Press | The British Journal of Psychiatry
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
... Retributivismo e Honra. In: WHITE, Mark D. (Org.). Watchmen e a Filosofia: um teste de Rorschach. Trad. Uiran Gebara da Silva. São Paulo: Madras, 2009. p. 29-39 MOORE, Alan; GIBBONS, Dave. Watchmen – Edição Definitiva. Trad. Jotapê Martins e Helcio de ...
Tópico(s): Literature, Culture, and Criticism
2021 - | IPOTESI – REVISTA DE ESTUDOS LITERÁRIOS
... it addresses superheroic masculinity, from the misogynistic vigilante Rorschach to the emasculated ex-hero Nite Owl. Through its cast of male heroes, Watchmen deconstructs the superhero genre by rewriting masculine tropes ...
Tópico(s): Media, Gender, and Advertising
2013 - Cambridge University Press | PS Political Science & Politics
Produção Nacional
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Jeferson de Moraes Jacques, Andressa Mueller,
... presente trabalho e estudar a construcao do personagem Rorschach, da obra Watchmen , de Alan Moore e Dave Gibbons, na perspectiva da teoria da literatura e da psicanalise, ciencia da qual os autores utilizaram pressupostos para criar o personagem. O objetivo especifico e, por meio do estudo de um personagem de narrativa grafica dentro da teoria da literatura e da psicanalise, ampliar o âmbito dos estudos literarios para os romances graficos. Palavras-chave: Rorschach. Literatura. Psicanalise.
Tópico(s): Literature, Culture, and Criticism
2014 - UNIVERSIDADE FEEVALE | Revista Prâksis
... the original series. The characters profiled in Before Watchmen include the Minutemen, Silk Spectre and her daughter Silk Spectre II, the Comedian, Dr. Manhattan, Ozymandias, Rorschach, Nite Owl and his protégé Nite Owl II, Dollar Bill (one issue), and Moloch (two issues).5 Despite containing approximately four times as much material as the original Watchmen, and some of the series garnering positive reviews ...
Tópico(s): Narrative Theory and Analysis
2017 - University of Texas Press | Cinema Journal
Katherine Hubbard, Peter Hegarty,
... ink-blot test. An excellent example of the Rorschach in popular culture can be found in Watchmen, the comic/graphic novel written by Alan Moore ...
Tópico(s): Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
2017 - SAGE Publishing | History of the Human Sciences
... and twisted recognitions that illuminate the panels of Watchmen. In most if not all these instances, the operative trope is savage irony, as in the bloodstained smiley button with which the comic opens, resonating against the psychotic anti-hero Rorschach's claim to know the "true face" of ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2008 - Johns Hopkins University Press | Postmodern Culture
... This pop status was evident in the 1986 Watchmen graphic novel, with its psychopathic, ink-blot-masked protagonist named Rorschach. With this notorious mystique, the Rorschach test was ...
Tópico(s): Art History and Market Analysis
2015 - American Psychiatric Association | American Journal of Psychiatry
Renato Ferreira Machado, Gelson Vanderlei Weschenfelder,
Watchmen is a work considered to be one of the most important of the late twentieth century, ... a discussion about the ethical issue in this Rorschach character .
Tópico(s): Psychoanalysis, Philosophy, and Politics
2016 - Escola Superior de Teologia | Estudos Teológicos
... makes an important contribution to the literature on Watchmen and on Moore’s oeuvre more generally. Hoberek reads the contrast between Adrian Veidt’s (aka Ozymandias) corporate empire and the uncompromising loner Rorschach (himself read through the career of Steve Ditko, ... the Question, the Charlton Comics character on which Rorschach is based) as “an allegory of the conflict between the work-for-hire creative talent of the comics industry and the corporations which by and large controlled and profited from their creations,” but one that is more ambivalent than might be expected.6 Moore has become infamously cantankerous in his relationships with publishers, having been burned by DC Comics over Watchmen’s ownership, among other grievances. However, Hoberek convincingly ...
Tópico(s): Music History and Culture
2017 - University of Texas Press | Cinema Journal
... this objective can be justified. Moore's characters, “Rorschach” and the “Comedian” in particular, are more fleshed out than the standard superhero cutouts. For Paik, this allows them to function as signposts marking different paths of morality through landscapes—theirs and ours—that are obscured by the political ambiguity and moral fog of the Cold War, the Vietnam conflict, and (now) the invasion of Iraq. (A timely analogue to Watchmen and its refractive commentary on the contemporary political ...
Tópico(s): Utopian, Dystopian, and Speculative Fiction
2013 - Penn State University Press | Comparative Literature Studies
Beyond Watchmen Blair Davis (bio) Watchmen, the twelve-part DC Comics series by writer Alan Moore and artist Dave Gibbons, celebrated its thirtieth anniversary in 2016. Watchmen’s underlying reassessment of the morality and politics ... or otherwise) over the past three decades, then Watchmen is an important part of this shift. It ... media forms. This In Focus seeks to examine Watchmen’s creative legacy and its significance as a ... of its characters and of superhero storytelling itself. “Watchmen was a Pop Art extinction-level event,” says ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2017 - University of Texas Press | Cinema Journal
While the apocalyptic elements of the graphic novel Watchmen have previously been explored, the theodical elements of ... who is the equivalent of God in the Watchmen universe. When the world is threatened by a ... anthropocentric perspectives voiced by the Silk Spectre and Rorschach, namely that life ought to be “fair,” or ... humans must impose their own meaning and morality. Rorschach also offers the alternative theodicy that evil arises ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2017 - University of Toronto Press | Journal of Religion and Popular Culture
Produção Nacional
Revisado por pares
Talita Serpa, Erika Leticia Carmona,
... nomes e relação intersemiótica dentro da graphic novel Watchmen, de Alan Moore e Dave Gibbons publicada pela ... e Twilight Lady (Dama do Crepúsculo); e em Rorschach, Ozymandias e Dr.Manhattan.
Tópico(s): Translation Studies and Practices
2021 - Grupo de Estudos Linguísticos do Estado de São Paulo | Revista do GEL