Blog Post #7

Marymount Library Search
1. Fingeroth, Danny. "Superman On the Couch: what superheroes really tell us about ourselves and our society. New York Continuum, 2004
2. Detweiler, Craig. "A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in pop culture." Grand Rapids, Mich.: Baker Academic c. 2003
3. Kenneth, Davis C. "Don't Know Much About Mythology: Everything We Need to Know About the Greatest Stories in Human History but Never Learned." New York, NY.: Harper Collins Publishers copyright 2005
4. Kapur, Jyotnsa. "Coining for Capital: Movies, Marketing and the Transformation of Childhood." New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, copyright 2005
5. "Signs of Life in the USA: Readings on Popular Culture for Writers." Maasik, Sonia. Solomon, Jack. Boston: Bedford Books, St. Martin's Press, copyright 1994
6. "The Worlds Greatest Superheroes." Dini, Paul. New York, NY: DC Comics, copyright 2005
7. "Superman: The Man of Steel. Volume 2" Byrne, John. Woflman, Marv. New York, NY: DC Comics, copyright 2003
8. "George Bernard Shaw's Plays: Man and Superman." Shaw, Bernard. New York, W.W. Norton, copyright 2002
9. "Heroes, Highbrows and the Popular Mind." Gurko, Leo. Indianapolis, Bobbs-Merril, copyright 1953
10. "First Break All the Rules: What the World's Greatest Managers Do Differently." Buckingham, Marcus. New York, NY: Simon & Shuster, copyright 1999
11. "Your America: Democracy's Local Heroes." Siceloff, John. New York, NY: Palgrave Macmillan, copyright 2008
12. "Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture." Savage, Jon. New York, NY: Viking, copyright 2007
13. "Killing Monsters: Why Children Need Fantasy, Super Heroes, and Make-Beleive Violence." Jones, Gerard. New York, NY: Basic Books, copyright 2002


Useful Subject Headings:
1. Folklore and Superstitions -- Dictionaries
2. Superman
3. Movies
4. Superheroes
5. Contexts and Criticism
6. Single Magazine Form
7. Heroes


A good subject heading is good in finding a book you need for a subject because it may be in the title or may have an entire section on that particular subject, such as heroes. Keywords make all the difference in finding books

The book that appears to be most relevant to my new topic from my last post is book #13 on my list, "KIlling Monsters: why Children Need Fantasy, Superheroes, and Make Believe Violence." The reason that this book is so relevant is because my topic consists of why are the most popular superhero movies the most popular deals with the teenage and children culture, especially one of popularity that pertains most to teenage culture, dealing with what they may go see at the movies and the logic behind why they would choose that movie, especially superhero movies as pertaining to the title of the most relevant book. Though it says children, it can pertain to teenagers as well, as teenagers also create such fantasies and act on the issue of popularity, making the book focus on the instinctive drive that we all have to go see whichever movie we choose to see.

The books that are least relevant to my search from the list above are:
"George Bernard Shaw's Plays: Man and Superman."
"A Matrix of Meanings: Finding God in pop culture."
"Your America: Democracy's Local Heroes."
The reason these books are not relevant to my search is that the Man and Superman book deals mostly with the plays of Bernard Shaw rather than relating to the topic of superheroes in comics and pop culture, written mostly as an analysis of what one the plays means, the themes, and mostly a critique. The Matrix of Meanings book deals mostly with religious views in pop culture rather than the idea of a God we project in pop culture or movies, which is what I was trying to find. Religion, though a topic concerning mine as a figure we want in media, does not relate to the term of superheroes or their meaning in society today, not delving into popularity of heroes, but rather popularity of religion in media, a broad subject for a different topic. The last book, Your America, deals mainly with the heroes in politics rather than fictional heroes in pop culture and why they are popular. Politics though dealing with my subject as part of the way teenagers think, this book mainly looks at the views of Democracy in America today and how they relate to modern cultures, not delving into the topic of heroes, though put as a keyword, yielded this result and acts more as a bio on famous people in politics rather than pop culture icons that teenagers and children relate to.