Symbol,Merchandise,and System: a Discussion on Superheroes
Being popular with the field of mass media,superheroes are a group of characters with super natural ability.Meanwhile,they are meaningful symbols and market oriented merchandise grown up in American democratic system and culture.Superheroes are being extracted in the double-layer structure of popular culture,copied and slightly adjusted during commercial process continuously.Superheroes are created by the interaction of American democratic system and anti-democratic,and also generated from the mixture of mainstream culture and none-mainstream culture.