HEROES AND VILLAINS
By Mike Alsford
Darton, Longman & Todd. 140 pages. £10.95
ISBN 0 232 52573 0
Have Spiderman, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, and Yoda got anything to teach us about living better lives? Mike Alsford, senior lecturer in theology at Greenwich University, thinks so.
In Heroes and Villains he explores the concept of humanness through the ‘lives’ of popular film, TV, and comic book characters. In doing this Alsford aims to demystify important debates about human morality, and values, which academic jargon often obscures.
