THE ARCHETYPAL ARCHIVE

The moment there is imagination, there is myth. We may have to accept an ethical cleavage between art and reality, tolerating horrors, rapes...

I still like my titular pun in Part One on a famous Harlan Ellison story (labored though it may be-- the pun, not the story). But even when ...

The best-known indirect product of both actitives is what we loosely term "recreation," though one will immediately get different ...

In SEITZ WARNING I goggled at Matt Zoller Seitz's notion that future superhero films should model themselves after the "spectrum of...

At the conclusion of this essay I said: Maybe in a future essay I'll enlarge on the reasons why I think why superhero films, like their...

Back in this essay I wrote of Freud and Levi-Strauss: "the two scholars are alike in their attempt to fit humankind into a monocausal s...

Going back to two of Heidi's quotes already cited in Part 1: Is this [sheer fantasy] REALLY one of the things that Superhero comics do b...