Braveheart. 300. Gladiator. Blood, guts, risk, and women — the almost perfect combination! The only thing really missing is a good stiff drink — a shot of whiskey that tastes like you’ve just put your head in a barrel of smoke, or been in a gunfight that leaves you and everyone else bleeding-out on the […]
Superheroes and violence
John Shelton Lawrence & Robert Jewett: The Myth of the American Superhero, Eerdmans, 2002. Gerard Jones: Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes and Make-Believe Violence, Basic, 2002. Is violence okay when it’s only make-believe? And what is the relationship between imaginary violence and violence in the real world? Questions such as these have […]