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Briony Davies
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Analysing Artefacts
Depiction, Identity and Different Gazes.


How Literal Suppression and Figurative Expression Forge the Parr Family’s Identity
The Incredibles , 2004 Through the depiction of the Parr family arc in The Incredibles (2004), the film transcends the action-packed family genre by unraveling how the consequence of law-enforced concealment of superheroes, becomes literal suppression of true self-identity, and “dramatises this lost, suppressed identity by juxtaposing it with depictions of everyday, humdrum, middle-class American life” (Herhuth, 2017). This analysis argues that only the family’s eventual fi
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