Episode 19: Superman Beyond Borders (w/ Regan Gurung)
Serious Fun
English - September 21, 2018 19:41 - 59 minutes - 81.6 MB - ★★★★★ - 5 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Previous Episode: Episode 18: A Tangled Web (w/J. Richard Stevens)
Next Episode: Episode 20: There's Always Room For Art (w/ Carli Ihde)
The COUNTDOWN TO COMIC-CON at the Brown County Library continues on Serious Fun! This week - Bryan sits down with UWGB Psychology professor Dr. Regan Gurung to talk about comics and superheroes across borders as well as his own experience with the medium as a child growing up in India. What can Superman tell us about the immigrant experience? How can comics explain and find commonality across culture? What is the psychological payload of identity - dual or otherwise - in superhero media? And what is the impact of the rise of Afrofuturism as a genre and aesthetic? All this and more this week on Serious Fun!
Music clips:
Hans Zimmer - "Flight", Man of Steel (2013) Original Score
John Williams - "Superman March", Superman (1978) Original Score