Super Heroes, Fashion and Ethnocentrism: Batman Case

Review:PASCARELLI

Batman does not have superpowers, neither he will have like Spider Man and Super Man. Batman is the unique heir of a fortune which made him compensate the absence of physical skills investing in technology.

The loss of his parents did not contribute to a gradual psychic growth, but instead in the search for justice confused with revenge.

The high technology is in Bat-Cave, in Bat-Car and in Bat-Clothes that protect him from fire, from falling and permit him to jump off great heights and even to fly! There is also a Bat-Belt, possibly inspired on the old Swiss penknife Victorinox.

Batman’s first appearance was on May, 1939 on the North American magazine Detective Comics.

The World War II that lasted from September 1st, 1939 to September 2nd, 1945 improved and transformed the character Batman and created other superheroes that served to the ethnocentric ideology of the North American people.

USA dominated the technology, conquered the technology and prevailed the rules of fashion. The same occurred to the British who for centuries dominated the naval technology and this is currently happening to the USA that is dominating the atomic technology.

Both American and British societies are heir cultures from their own that do not see “the other for the other”, but judge the rest of the cultures by their proximity or distance from their way of life – The American Life.

Abstracting from the cultural relativism, it imposes a globalized world through an aggressive marketing and a savage warlike capitalism with their ethnocentric values.

The ethical position implies on the ability to see “the other for the other” and not to judge the other from your cultural lens. It is a difficult culture relativism ability which opposes to all ideological impregnation.

According to Guimarães Rocha: “Ethnocentrism is a vision of the world where our own group is deemed as center of everything and all the others are thought and felt through our values, our models, our definitions of what is the existence. In the intellectual plan, it may be seen as the difficulty to think the difference. In the affective plan, it may be seen as feelings of strangeness, fear, hostility etc.” (“O que é etnocentrismo”, São Paulo: Brasiliense, 1999. Col. Primeiros Passos.)

Batman brings in his clothes all warlike technology that symbolically reflects the American culture that is ethnocentric and imposes to the rest of the world their democratic model through war. The U.S.A. which is the greatest world-wide economic power and has won the greatest amount of Nobel prizes is also the one with the biggest population in jail and of inmates in psychiatric hospitals. Why? Batman is sad, has a vampire aspect, affectively gotten dull, unpredictable and violent, despite all the technology he carries in his indestructible clothes. Gotham City is dark and underground, a sick city that remembers Chicago of the thirties, dominated by the Italian Mafia. Gotham City needs to have heroes to live without fear. But the terror is always latent because from the culverts and openings of Gotham City it appears enemies with flabbergasting technological powers: Joker, Cluemaster, Penguin and Mr. Freeze – all of them as psychotic and powerless as Batman.

Batman’s enemies carry in their clothes the evil that characterizes them. The hero’s ethnocentrism is the driving force to destroy them since they are different and incorrigible and cannot live in Gotham City pacifically. Both in Batman’s 60’s and 70’s series and in the films the hero transforms himself with elegant bat clothes while his enemies wear eccentric clothes that make them look ridiculous. That is the way the ethnocentric culture sees and judges the others: in a bizarre way, savage and always kitsch. The mission of this culture is to convert the others or, if impossible to convert, destroy them through the fine methods of the powerful warlike technology that it possesses – the ethnocide.

Translator: Renata da Silva.

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Super Heroes, Fashion and Ethnocentrism: Batman Case Originally published in Shvoong: http://www.shvoong.com/entertainment/movies/1939911-super-heroes-fashion-ethnocentrism-batman/

 

World War Z is one of the highest grossing films of 2013 and Brad Pitt's most successful movie collecting $533 millions Worldwide.

World War Z

Review:ronaldo12345
Based on a novel named World War Z by Max Brooks,World War Z is one of the highest grossing films of 2013 and Brad Pitt's most successful movie collecting $533 millions Worldwide.Brad pitt named as Gerry Lane, in a movie World War is a United Nations Investigator who must travel worldwide for the end of Zombies.

Former UN Investigator Lane,his wife and his two children are in the city of Philadelphia where the city is completely attacked by Zombies. As Pandemonium increases the Lanes escape to New Jersey and take refuge in an apartment, home to a couple with a young son, Tommy. UN Deputy Secretary-General Thierry Umutoni—an old friend of Gerry's wants to help Gerry and sends helicopter to rescue from Wild Zombies. Thierry than takes Gerry to Navy vessel in Atlantic where Scientist and many researchers are trying to find a vaccine in order to eradicate the virus spread all over the world.Gerry warily agrees to help Fassbach find the outbreak's source after it is made clear that he and his family will be removed from the ship if he does not.

In search for a vaccine Gerry than travels to Camp Humphreys, a military base in South Korea,where they are attacked by zombies.After rescued by military police, A former CIA operative, imprisoned at the base, tells Gerry to go to Jerusalem, where he says a safe zone has been maintained by the Israeli Mossad since before the outbreak's official acknowledgement

Gerry than travels to Jerusalem where he meets Mossad chief Jurgen Warmbrunn, who explains that months earlier, the Mossad had intercepted an Indian military message claiming that Indian troops were fighting the rakshasa, or the "undead".Israel had made huge erecting wall but due to the noise made bu people over there zombies scaled the walls and attacked. On the way, Gerry notices zombies ignoring a sick old man and an emaciated boy. Soon after, one of Gerry's escorts, a soldier who identifies herself only as "Segen", is bitten on the hand, which Gerry quickly amputates to stop her turning. Gerry than contacted to thierry and he is diverted to World Health Organization in Wales .The WHO staff suggests that they test this by deliberately infecting somebody with one of the facility's pathogens, but these are in a wing already overrun by zombies. Gerry, Segen and the lead WHO doctor go to get a pathogen, but are separated on the way; Gerry continues to the pathogen vault while Segen and the doctor return to the main building. A zombie corners Gerry inside the vault, prompting him to inject himself with an unknown bacteria and open the vault, thereby testing his theory. The zombie ignores him, as do those he encounters while returning to the main wing. Everybody rejoices at Gerry's success.

And at last Gerry was a lone hero and his family are reunited together.

On the budget of $125 million World War Z is simply awesome movie to watch and It's one of my best movie of 2013
World War Z Originally published in Shvoong: http://www.shvoong.com/entertainment/movies/2395592-world-war/