Politics and Aesthetics: Can Superheroes Help Us Understand Democracy Under Stress?

• In Event: Politics and Narratives: What We Can Learn from a Variety of Different Texts

Brief Overview

This paper is a reflection on the MCU and how it trains our sensibilities in this moment in history, when we are experiencing authoritarian propaganda, competing military and police presences in U.S. cities, and the hollowing out of democratic norms.

Author

• Lilly J. Goren, Carroll University