Mervi Miettinen

List of John Benjamins publications in which Mervi Miettinen is involved.

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Miettinen, Mervi 2011 Chapter 12. Representing the state of exception: Power, utopia, visuality and narrative in superhero comics Images in Use: Towards the critical analysis of visual communication, Stocchetti, Matteo and Karin Kukkonen (eds.), pp. 269–290 | Article

This article explores the relationship between the superhero and the state and the subversive potential within that relationship, both thematically and visually. The superhero must act above the law in order to uphold it, and thus question the legitimacy of authority. The comic book narrative has… read more