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“We Need to be Put in Check”: Law, Government, and Accountability in Captain America: Civil War
By: Dustin Cranford, Doctoral Candidate at the University of Maryland, College Park Featured Image: Screen shot from Captain America: Civil War.1 The central theme of the Marvel Cinematic Universe (MCU) 2016 film, Captain America: Civil War, is the conflict between individual freedom and collective accountability. The opening scenes of the movie depict the Avengers on…
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Neon Genesis Evangelion, Ikari Shinji, and J.S. Bach: Using Music to Define the Japanese Yūtōsei
By: Heike Hoffer, Ph.D. in musicology from The Ohio State University Featured image: Screen shot from Neon Genesis Evangelion1 The anime Neon Genesis Evangelion, which aired on Japanese television between 1995 and 1996, has inspired questions about its symbolism among viewers worldwide for almost three decades. One scene that is often brought up in fan…
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Superheroes Under the Big Top
By Madeline Steiner, Post-Doctoral Fellow, University of South Carolina Countless comic book characters have backgrounds as scientists. It’s to the point where my close friend, a biologist working in a genetics lab with sharks, frequently jokes that it’s only a matter of time until he turns into a supervillain himself. In addition to the science…
