[Frameworks] films that consider the idea of a super hero

[Fred Camper]

Quoting malgosia askanas <ma at panix.com>:

> But can't there be undependent films that deal with cultural  
> artifacts?  For example, can't you imagine an undependent film  
> that's a meditation of some kind on the Sagrada Familia?

Of course. And there are lots of avant-garde/experimental/undependent  
films that acknowledge influences from "high culture" such as Gaudi.  
In the sense of "not financially dependent" there could also be  
undependent film meditations on Batman etc. I reacted the way that I  
did not because there aren't good examples of superhero meditations  
but because in my experience a lot of films that purport to examine  
mass culture are actually repeating, not differing from and not  
critiquing, its values.

Fred Camper
Chicago