http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/keyword/modern-film Inquiries Journal provides undergraduate and graduate students around the world a platform for the wide dissemination of academic work over a range of core disciplines. en-us Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:20:57 -0400 Tue, 07 Apr 2026 05:20:57 -0400 http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/104/the-hero-we-create-911-and-the-reinvention-of-batman By Joshua C. Feblowitz - While creative interpretations of September 11th have taken on numerous and varied forms, no genre deals more transparently and explicitly with the themes of 9/11 than the superhero narrative. For decades, figures such as Superman, Batman, and Spiderman have been fighting evil and criminality in fictional worlds that re-imagine American society and offer clear and unequivocal ideas of justice. The fantastical stories of these superheroes generate frameworks within which endlessly complex social issues can be disentangled to reveal pure and didactic cultural ideals, collapsing moral shades of gray... Wed, 30 Dec 2009 10:27 EST http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/articles/104/the-hero-we-create-911-and-the-reinvention-of-batman