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Message: <blockquote data-quote="el-remmen" data-source="post: 8493244" data-attributes="member: 11">I don't have a specific list of contexts. It is more like the contexts emerge from research and theorizing. And the multiple contexts may not necessarily be all applied at once or applied by one scholar. That is part of how scholarship works, no one person can think it through from all possible productive angles (or even know what they are at any given time), but various scholars working over time come to theorize, consider and apply them.So for example, a guest writer on my site for public comics scholarship <a href="https://themiddlespaces.com/2021/11/02/onemomentintime/" target="_blank">recently wrote about the design of Mary Jane Watson's wedding dress in Amazing Spider-Man Annual #21 (1987)</a>, within the context of the AIDS crisis and public attitudes towards people with AIDS, given that the dress was designed by an actual black gay designer, who appears in the comic, and died from complications from AIDS just before the comic saw print. In another essay, I write about <a href="https://themiddlespaces.com/2020/11/03/say-it-loud-tyroc-pt1/" target="_blank">the general arc of the Black superhero in DC and Marvel</a> from the 1960s to today using the introduction of Tyroc in Legion of Superheroes and its vision of an "ideal future."I am sharing links to those examples because they are public and not behind a paywall like most more developed and peer-reviewed scholarship.Not sure what you mean by a "formatted perspective."</blockquote>

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