Original scientific paper

Captain Euro: Time, Space and Imperial Power

Senka Božić-Vrbančić ; University of Zadar, The English Department, Zadar, Croatia
Mario Vrbančić orcid.org/0000-0002-2254-8988 ; University of Zadar, The English Department, Zadar, Croatia

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.

Keywords

European supranational identity; popular culture; comic superheroes; ideological fantasy of imperialism; time and space

Hrčak ID:

74740

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/74740

Publication date:

8.12.2011.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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