Richard Herbert, Madness and Superheroes. A Foucaultian analysis of the madness of the gritty, realistic superhero movie, Overthinking It site, September 3rd, 2013. ‘We must understand it not as reason diseased, or as reason lost or alienated, but quite simply as reason dazzled’. –Michel Foucault, Madness and Civilization In 1938, Americans who tuned into Mercury …