What It Really Means To Wear the Mask [AUGUST VIDEO ESSAY]
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Hello to all my Queers and Dears, and welcome to the August 2023 entry in my series of monthly video essays!
In this video, I dig into the discourse around which versions of Spider-Man are faithful to the character, and attempt to argue that often that discourse misses what makes someone worthy of the mantle Spider-Man by focusing too much on a limited view of his everyman status and on his power set.
So come with me as we explore What it Really means to Wear the Mask!
Enjoy!
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Articles Cited:
-Why are there so few Prisoners in the Netherlands?
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2019/dec/12/why-are-there-so-few-prisoners-in-the-netherlands
-Spider-Verse Artists Say Working on the Sequel Was ‘Death by a Thousand Paper Cuts
https://www.vulture.com/2023/06/spider-verse-animation-four-artists-on-making-the-sequel.html
-National Institute of Justice: Five Things on Deterrence
https://www.ojp.gov/pdffiles1/nij/247350.pdf
Videos that helped shape this essay:
-Into the Spider-Verse: Escaping Comfort Zones https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7w2if-gfhYw
-Spider-Verse 2's Most WELL WRITTEN Scene (Gwen & Dad)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rba8jskPH28
-Gwen's isn't the only trans narrative
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9h9Zo-b3OOc
-Across the Spider-Verse was made with abuse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_l_azYFfuLY
-Across the Spider-Verse cast members discuss it all | How It Happened: Across the Spider-Verse
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHLrJSqZd48
-Why I Love Across the Spider-Verse - Who Deserves to Be Spider-Man?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHcb5V5Stts
-Implicitly Pretentious' Spider-Man Retrospective
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLsWO1cboE_47lP8LnmVaixxgFMsidpHLE
-Spider-Man 2 Doesn't Get Spider-Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CngK7iQH3xE&list=PLsWO1cboE_47n3iBM1-IJjZCV0p2ZUYZp&index=22&pp=iAQB