Well, I think I'll take a stab at Spiderman. However, having never read the comic books or anything original, this is based off of the acting skills of Tobey Maguire and Kirsten Dunst.
Foucault thought that the purest form of art came from questioning social norms. The "best" knowledge is the kind that results from asking new, innovative questions that maybe no one else has asked before.
In one of the most significant lines in the first Spiderman movie, Peter Parker's uncle-type-guy says to him, "With great responsibility comes great power." He brushed off this advice at the time, but I'm sure you all know the twist of fate that led Parker to reconsider his uncle-type-guy's advice. There was some deviousness, and a lot of guilt, and some deep thinking. What emerged from this episode was a changed Spiderman, and a re-evaluation of the order of things.
I mean, really, Spiderman was an anomaly, a complete accident. No one else, to Parker's knowledge, had ever been in such a situation or dealt with the issues he had to deal with. What little past knowledge he could glean from, say, reading comic books, was no particular to his situation and thus could only be so helpful. What's a photographer to do? He had to question the order of things as he knew it, and get some real answers on how to live his own life.
Maybe this is stretching what Foucault actually said too far, but if I wanted to write an inspiring essay about this topic, I might say something about how really, any coming-of-age story is a Foucaultian work of art. You have what your parents tell you is right and what your parents tell you that you should do. Then you have what you want to do and be, which is based partially on what your friends are doing and being. Your own life and your own truth is not any of these things which are previously known to you, because you're a unique person and you have to forge your own path. So what can you do? Question the order of things in your life. That's the only way you can really live your own life, instead of just conforming to what everyone else is telling you.
Whoo Spiderman.
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That is a cool way of viewing the Foucaultian analysis. That we fulfill the requirements for this analysis on a daily basis. It does make sense that if we do not conform to what has been described as the norm, we basically challenge the order of things on a personal level. It may not cause a historical social shift, but I think Foucault's analysis would apply.
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