Journal article
Comic Book Mythology: Shyamalan's Unbreakable and the Grounding of Good in Evil
Law Text Culture, Vol.16, pp.243-276
2012
Abstract
It's a classic depiction of Good versus Evil' Elijah Price tells the potential buyer of a piece of art. This 'piece of art' is an early sketch of a battle between two characters in a comic book and is on display at Price's art gallery, Limited Edition, in the world of M. Night Shyamalan's 2000 film Unbreakable. Popular culture is replete with such dualities of Good and Evil - the good hero invariably battling the evil villain. One of the clearest spaces where this battle is given visual and bodily form is in the comic book superhero genre that Shyamalan draws upon in Unbreakable and to which Elijah Price is referring. While this genre is inherently absorbed with matters of justice, legality and criminality - and of Good and Evil - it has traditionally been dismissed as not only a form of popular culture and mere entertainment but as the lowest form of popular culture - that is, as 'crude, poorly-drawn, demi-literate, cheap, disposable kiddie fare…' (McCloud 1993: 3).
Details
- Title
- Comic Book Mythology: Shyamalan's Unbreakable and the Grounding of Good in Evil
- Authors
- Tim Peters (Author) - Griffith University
- Publication details
- Law Text Culture, Vol.16, pp.243-276
- Publisher
- Legal Intersections Research Centre
- Date published
- 2012
- ISSN
- 1322-9060
- Organisation Unit
- University of the Sunshine Coast, Queensland; School of Law and Society; School of Law and Criminology - Legacy
- Language
- English
- Record Identifier
- 99451203102621
- Output Type
- Journal article
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