Captain Euro: Time, Space and Imperial Power
Captain Euro: Time, Space and Imperial Power
Author(s): Senka Božić-Vrbančić, Mario VrbančićSubject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Sveučilište u Zagrebu, Filozofski fakultet
Keywords: European supranational identity; popular culture; comic superheroes; ideological fantasy of imperialism; time and space
Summary/Abstract: Captain Euro is a comic superhero created in 1999 by “Twelve Stars Corporate Vision Strategists”, a U.K.-based company known for promoting the European Parliament and the European Commission in the 1990s. A key purpose of this essay is to provide some insights into the ways in which popular culture operates in the European Union in order to contribute to the construction of a European supranational identity.
Journal: Studia ethnologica Croatica
- Issue Year: 2011
- Issue No: 23
- Page Range: 25-46
- Page Count: 21
- Language: English