User:Lmlambe3/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title
 * Strong Female Protagonist


 * Article Evaluation
 * The article has good sources, but it needs more information. It is a class S article.


 * Sources
 * Mulligan, Brennan Lee. Strong Female Protagonist, Book Two. IDW Publishing, 2018.
 * Benatti, Francesca. "Superhero comics and the digital communications circuit: a case study of Strong Female Protagonist." Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics (2018).
 * https://io9.com/5922443/a-webcomic-superheroine-questions-whether-superpowered-crimefighting-is-the-best-way-to-be-a-strong-female-protagonist
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20130201235547/http://www.comicsalliance.com/2013/01/30/read-this-now-brennan-lee-mulligan-and-molly-ostertags-strong/
 * https://web.archive.org/web/20141213015555/http://comicsalliance.com/strong-female-protagonist-interview/

Option 2

 * Article title
 * Antihero


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article really needs more information as this is a major trope, and yet there is not much written information on it. There are many good sources though.


 * Sources
 * Shafer, Daniel M., and Arthur A. Raney. "Exploring how we enjoy antihero narratives." Journal of Communication 62.6 (2012): 1028-1046.
 * Lamont, Rosette C. "From hero to anti-hero." Studies in the literary imagination 9.1 (1976): 1.
 * Jonason, Peter K., et al. "The antihero in popular culture: Life history theory and the dark triad personality traits." Review of General Psychology 16.2 (2012): 192-199.
 * Vaage, Margrethe Bruun. The antihero in American television. Routledge, 2015.
 * Simmons, David. The anti-hero in the American nov

Option 3

 * Article title
 * Magical Girl


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has quite a bit of information, but it's still S rank. I do know a bit about this topic, so it would be easier for me to write about than others.


 * Sources
 * Saito, Kumiko. "Magic, Shōjo, and Metamorphosis: Magical Girl Anime and the Challenges of Changing Gender Identities in Japanese Society." The Journal of Asian Studies 73.1 (2014): 143-164.
 * Cleto, Sara, and Erin Kathleen Bahl. "Becoming the Labyrinth: Negotiating Magical Space and Identity in Puella Magi Madoka Magica." Humanities 5.2 (2016): 20.
 * Newitz, Annalee. "Magical Girls and." Film Quarterly 49.1 (1995): 2-15.
 * Newitz, Annalee. "Anime otaku: Japanese animation fans outside Japan." Bad Subjects 13.11 (1994): 1-14.
 * Liess, Shay. Mahou Shoujo Trans (Formation): The Magical Girl Genre and Fairy Telling as Expressions of Gender Fluidity. Diss. CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY, NORTHRIDGE, 2018.

Option 4

 * Article title
 * The Hero's Journey


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article has a lot of information, but it's only C rank. It could use some more updated or academic information.


 * Sources
 * Campbell, Joseph. The hero's journey: Joseph Campbell on his life and work. Vol. 7. New World Library, 2003.
 * Williams, Clive. "The hero’s journey: A mudmap for change." Journal of Humanistic Psychology 59.4 (2019): 522-539.
 * Bloom, Harold, and Blake Hobby, eds. The Hero's Journey. Infobase Publishing, 2009.
 * Robbins, Ruth Anne. "Harry Potter, Ruby Slippers and Merlin: Telling the Client's Story Using the Characters and Paradigm of the Archetypal Hero's Journey." Seattle UL Rev. 29 (2005): 767.
 * Lawson, Gerard. "The hero's journey as a developmental metaphor in counseling." The Journal of Humanistic Counseling, Education and Development 44.2 (2005): 134-144.

Option 5

 * Article title
 * Girl Power


 * Article Evaluation
 * This article could use additional and more elaborate information. It is C rank but there could be more added.


 * Sources
 * Currie, Dawn, Deirdre M. Kelly, and Shauna Pomerantz.  'Girl Power': girls reinventing girlhood. Vol. 4. Peter Lang, 2009.
 * Zaslow, Emilie. Feminism, Inc.: Coming of age in girl power media culture. Springer, 2009.
 * Hains, Rebecca C. "Power feminism, mediated: Girl power and the commercial politics of change." Women's Studies in Communication 32.1 (2009): 89-113.
 * Kearney, Mary Celeste. "Sparkle: luminosity and post-girl power media." Continuum 29.2 (2015): 263-273.
 * Leonard, Marion. Gender in the music industry: Rock, discourse and girl power. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd., 2007.