“Your brother is compelled–not a hero!” by Imene Medfouni

“…The acceptance of French being the MOI is a way of accommodating reality; hence, it is seen as inevitable, as exemplified in one of the participants’ use of the expression “your brother is compelled–not a hero!” Students and teachers’ refusal of French does not reflect their actual need for a radical language policy change but their hope for amplifying their unheard voices through using the English language or the government’s political discourses of decolonizing Francophone education via Arabisation, reflecting the constant disputes between top-down policies and bottom-up stakeholders’ perspectives. …”
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Nikolay Zabelkin, A Hero of the Soviet Union by I. A. Pavlenko

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Marvel, Star Wars and the Risk of Being a Hero: Social Responsibilities for Transmedia Storytellers in the Age of Collective Journey by Webster Luke

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The Traces of “New Character” in Uzbek Short Story Heroes Based on Two Examples of Uzbek Short Stories of the Present Day by Veli Savaş Yelok

“…As a general principle, creating a hero is seen as the first issue in the literature of every era. …”
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The Birth of a Nation (Nate Parker, 2016): The Tale of Nat Turner’s Rebellion by Delphine Letort

“…It shows how Parker uses the biopic as a narrative frame to turn the slave rebel into a hero and analyzes the impact of the visuals over the construction of a historically controversial figure. …”
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Programas ideológicos a través de la imagem: algunos ejemplos de la Edad Media by Marta Serrano Coll

“…Some examples of the attributions to the king are: epical crussader against the infidel sarracins, epitomy of a hero, root of a glorious dinasty in Valencia and Mallorca, etc. …”
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Generation Z and its heroes by N. S. Evsegneeva

“…The results of the study showed that Generation Z is striving to acquire a social mission in their activities and the theme of heroism moves into the plane of everyday life: everyone can become a hero.…”
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Narrativas del conflicto y construcciones del pasado entre los q’eqchi’es: del relato de vida al mito by Agnès Bergeret

“…The analysis of a narrative on a Q’eqchi’ peasant’s legal and political struggle against the Hacienda, recounted to the ethnographer and compared with the version of a ladino, shows the innovations of the narrator, as he uses different narrative genres to create a hero who can give meaning to recent historical upheavals…”
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La fabrique des héros. Usages politiques de Francisco Morazán en Amérique Centrale au XXe siècle (1942-1992) by Catherine Lacaze

“…After showing how the historic person evolved as a hero during the century following his death in 1842. …”
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Rafael del Riego, mártir en vida by Maud Le Guellec

“…It will do so through terminological considerations, evoking the vicissitudes of his life during the Trienio period and examining sources of the time to see how Riego’s defenders, contemporaries of the events, began to represent him not only as a hero of the cause, but also as a living martyr.…”
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Le statut de la sainteté dans les « religions politiques » by Yves Bizeul

“…Furthermore, the saint hereby becomes a hero (of work, of war, or of propaganda) and an armed or unarmed missionary serving a holy “cause”. …”
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The Depersonalized as Vanishing Hero and Heroine in Yorùbá Moral Placards by Olatunde Bayo Lawuyi

“…It further argues that because Yorùbá society permits the co-existence and co[1]extensiveness of individual and public moral placards which is not regarded as an entirely closed system, an otherwise depersonalized person can later become a hero/deity/heroine. Basically, therefore, public moral placard can be revised to accommodate new values, give rise to new class of people, and establish for them an enviable status. …”
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THE PHENOMENON OF POLITICAL HUMOR IN THE KVN TV-SHOW ACCORDING TO THE MATERIALS OF CONTENT ANALYSIS by O. Pimenova, O. Kuzmina, A. Serova, I. Krokhalevsky, M. Giniatullina

“…Based on the content analysis of the KVN (Club of cheerful and resourceful) games was made a conclusion about the censoring political humor according to the aims of government propaganda; it was revealed that in the political humor of the KVN they actively use the manipulative methods; it was proved that political humor which made V. V. Putin a hero and discredits those disliked by the government political figures and ideas of other countries in the mass consciousness. …”
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Cinema and Identity: Criss-Cross Reflections by Irina S. Semenenko, Vladimir I. Pantin, Elena V. Morozova

“…The authors conclude that as of today, the expectation of a hero is an unmet public demand in contemporary cinema.…”
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„L’ uomo nuovo” nei testi di Virginie Despentes e Sandro Veronesi by Magdalena Lange-Henszke

“…Religion, philosophy, politics, literature, art, science perceive the new man as a perfect individual, a hero or a charismatic leader of a new humanity, liberated from all evil. …”
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Construction of the image of Ermak in late XVI – XVII centuries: official, church and folk practices by S. A. Chernyshov

“…This study shows how, as a result of collective action on the construction of «Ermak» by various subjects of communication (government, church, Stroganovs, folk art), a contradictory but universal image of a hero has come down to us, suitable for any communication task — from justifying «Cossack freemen» to evidence of the «state» nature of the campaign to Siberia.…”
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Legal Disputes of Emigrant Periodical Publishers from the End of the 19th Century to 1904 by Remigijus Misiūnas

“…Conversely, the press opposing “Saulė” presented the case as a matter of great significance, serving Lithuanian interests, and depicted the initiator of the case almost as a hero sacrificing for the good of the emigrant community, using colourful epithets and emotional expressions (similar to “Saulė”). …”
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