Cristóbal Macías Villalobos

List of John Benjamins publications in which Cristóbal Macías Villalobos is involved.

Title

The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media

Edited by Rosario López Gregoris and Cristóbal Macías Villalobos

What was a hero in Classical Antiquity? Why is it that their characteristics have transcended chronological and cultural barriers while they are still role models in our days? How have their features changed to be embodied by comic superheroes and film? How is their essence vulgarized and turned… read more

[IVITRA Research in Linguistics and Literature, 23] 2020. xiv, 160 pp.

Article

Macías Villalobos, Cristóbal 2020 The Videogame Hero in his Labyrinth: The Hero in Electronic Gaming The Hero Reloaded: The reinvention of the classical hero in contemporary mass media, López Gregoris, Rosario and Cristóbal Macías Villalobos (eds.), pp. 73–102 | Chapter

In this paper we analyze the main features of some of the most popular videogame characters in the recent years (that is to say, heroes, villains and antiheroes), compared to classical Greco-Roman heroes, after reflecting on the consequences of the fact that a videogame hero only comes to life… read more