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An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives. For many, the idea of comic book art implies simplistic four-color renderings of stiff characters slugging it out. In fact, modern superhero comic books showcase a range of complex artistic styles, with diverse connotations. Leading comics scholar Jeffrey A. Brown assesses six distinct approaches to superhero illustration-idealism, realism, cute, retro, grotesque, and noir-examining how each visually represents the superhero as a symbolic construct freighted with meaning. Whereas comic book studies tend to focus on text and narrative, Super Bodies gives overdue credit to the artwork, which is not only a principal source of the appeal of comic books but also central to the values these works embody. Brown argues that superheroes are to be taken not as representations of people but as iconic types, and the art conveys this. Even the most realistic comic illustrations are designed to suggest not persons but ideas-ideas about bodies and societies. Thus the appearance of superheroes both directly and indirectly influences the story being told as well as the opinions readers form concerning justice, authority, gender, puberty, sexuality, ethnicity, violence, and other concepts central to political and cultural life.

Sorrentino is a member of Kappa Alpha Theta Sorority and a Dean's List student at UCF. Her biography was included in the National Dean's List, a publication that acknowledges students for academic achievement.

Synopsis: Having dissected class conflict in the U.K. in her acclaimed films \"Red Road\" and \"Fish Tank,\" director Andrea Arnold now jumps back 200 years to provide a similar take on Emily Bronte's classic. Arnold's \"Wuthering Heights\" is grubby and elemental, telling the story of a doomed romance between a Yorkshire lady and her adopted brother. As filtered through Arnold's sensibility, Bronte's tale is just a rough thread on which to hang impressionistic, dialogue-free scenes of muddy farm-folk, in conflict over what they consider to be their property. In other words: This \"Wuthering Heights\" isn't for fans of faithful literary adaptations. It's a raw cinematic experience, filled with powerful documentary-style imagery and unspoken commentary on how people from different worlds relate to each other.

\"Wuthering Heights\"

[Henry D. Vara], who did not attend yesterday's hearing, was represented by Atty. Francis J. DiMento. Staniford Sorrentino of Provincetown, the proposed manager for the new club, and Georgianna McSorley, of Lexington, who is Vara's co- investor, were present at the hearing to answer questions. DiMento repeated to [Andrea Gargiulo] that the plans for 3 Appleton Way were simply to operate a \"conventional neighborhood bar.\" DiMento said the new owners want to avoid categorizing the nightclub as a disco or gay bar. Gargiulo said that the present owners, Denis Palmisciano of Dedham and Vincent J. Carnovale of Revere, have been unsuccessful in their attempts to operate the jazz club. She repeatedly asked DiMento and Sorrentino to explain why they believed their venture would be successful.