A COMPARATIVE STUDY ON AMERICAN POPULAR CULTURE PRODUCT: THE AVENGERS COMIC BOOK SERIES (1962-1963) AND THE AVENGERS MOVIE (2012)
This research compared two products of American popular culture with same title in different media. As products of American popular culture, both of the Avengers comic book series and film are regarded as a media which is able to express the social and cultural phenomenon of America in the time of t...
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[Yogyakarta] : Universitas Gadjah Mada
2013
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| Summary: | This research compared two products of American popular culture with
same title in different media. As products of American popular culture, both of the
Avengers comic book series and film are regarded as a media which is able to
express the social and cultural phenomenon of America in the time of their
productions.
In film adaptation, there must be differences and similarities can be found
compared to its original source. And the differences of characters depicted in the
Avengers comic book and film make the researcher interested to do further
discussion in this thesis.
And through adaptation analysis and by comparing two primary data the
Avengers comic series (1962-63) and the Avengers movie (2013), this research
shows that the differences and similarities in both primary data happen because of
consumers� demands and also social and cultural phenomena in the time of their
productions. In the comic series, the woman character is depicted as weak person
and subordinate to her team-mates |
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