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Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Superhero Narratives in Post-9/11 Era
2020. urn:nbn:hr:142:688762
Prtenjača, Zvonimir
Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Department of English Language and Literature

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Prtenjača, Z. (2020). Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Superhero Narratives in Post-9/11 Era (Master's thesis). Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences. Retrieved from https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:688762

Prtenjača, Zvonimir. "Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Superhero Narratives in Post-9/11 Era." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:688762

Prtenjača, Zvonimir. "Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Superhero Narratives in Post-9/11 Era." Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, 2020. https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:688762

Prtenjača, Z. (2020). 'Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Superhero Narratives in Post-9/11 Era', Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, accessed 19 January 2025, https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:688762

Prtenjača Z. Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Superhero Narratives in Post-9/11 Era [Master's thesis]. Osijek: Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences; 2020 [cited 2025 January 19] Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:688762

Z. Prtenjača, "Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Superhero Narratives in Post-9/11 Era", Master's thesis, Josip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Osijek, 2020. Available at: https://urn.nsk.hr/urn:nbn:hr:142:688762

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TitleMan of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice: Superhero Narratives in Post-9/11 Era
Title (croatian)Čovjek od čelika i Batman v Superman: Zora pravednika: Priče o superjunacima nakon 11. rujna 2001.
AuthorZvonimir Prtenjača
MentorLjubica Matek (mentor)
Committee memberLjubica Matek (predsjednik povjerenstva)
Committee memberJasna Poljak Rehlicki (član povjerenstva)
Committee memberSanja Runtić (član povjerenstva)
GranterJosip Juraj Strossmayer University of Osijek
Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
(Department of English Language and Literature)
Osijek
Defense date and country2020-09-02, Croatia
Scientific / art field,
discipline and subdiscipline		HUMANISTIC SCIENCES
Philology
Anglistics
Abstract
Despite the moderate success of their predecessors produced during the 1970s and the 1980s, superhero films effectively began to dominate the silver screen and shatter global box offices with the release of Bryan Singer’s X-Men (2000). As they shifted from campy escapism to thoughtful dialectics on contemporary issues, superhero films were inarguably affected by the 9/11 terrorist attacks which severely fractured all aspects of American identity and life. Twenty years later, there is no shortage of superhero films which have implicitly or explicitly grappled with the trauma 9/11 induced, as well as its ramifications concretized by the ceaseless War on Terror. Yet the necessity to gauge the imprints of these decades of disruption on popular culture does not seem to be abating, as purported by Zack Snyder’s Man of Steel (2013) and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice (2016). Therefore, by examining the films’ post-9/11 urban and psychological wreckage, this thesis first examines the traumatized state of the films’ characters as interrelated with metropolitan destruction in the wake of a historically-redefining tragedy. Taking into account that the titular films coalesce into a singular narrative, the thesis examines its socio-political subtexts with causal links to and a commentary on the post-9/11 American milieu. Finally, the thesis approaches the post-9/11 superhero films as both pop-cultural artifacts and coping mechanisms, aiming to show how Man of Steel and Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice remediate the wounded American psyche rather than reinforce its paralysis in the twentyfirst century.
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Languageenglish
URN:NBNurn:nbn:hr:142:688762
Study programmeTitle: English Language and Literature (double major); specializations in: Teacher Training, Translation and Interpreting Studies, Philology
Course: Teacher Training
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti (magistar/magistra edukacije engleskog jezika i književnosti)
Study programmeTitle: History (double major); specializations in: educ.
Course: educ.
Study programme type: university
Study level: graduate
Academic / professional title: magistar/magistra edukacije povijesti (magistar/magistra edukacije povijesti)
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