@article{Juricevic_2021, title={The Close-Up Eye-Asymmetry Visual Metaphor Communicates the Abject: Evidence from Batman and Superman Comics}, volume={3}, url={https://erevistas.publicaciones.uah.es/ojs/index.php/reden/article/view/1427}, DOI={10.37536/reden.2021.3.1427}, abstractNote={<p>A distinctive theme of Gothic narratives is the abject. A character that is abject threatens to disrupt boundaries, both personal and societal. As such, the abject character must be rejected or destroyed by society. In this study, I provide evidence that the visual metaphor of Close-Up Eye Asymmetry (CUE-A) communicates the concept of the abject. I compare how often CUE-A is used when depicting Batman compared to Superman in comic books. Overall, I provide evidence that: (1) Batman is Gothic, (2) Batman is more Gothic than Superman, (3) Batman is abject, and (4) Batman is depicted with CUE-A more often than Superman. Taken together, this supports the conclusion that the CUE-A visual metaphor does, in fact, communicate the abject.</p>}, number={1}, journal={REDEN. Revista EspaƱola de Estudios Norteamericanos}, author={Juricevic, Igor}, year={2021}, month={Nov.}, pages={41-64} }