
The Many Lives of the Batman
Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 21. March 2023
Book
Hardback
228 pages
978-1-032-44103-0 (ISBN)
Description
First published in 1991, The Many Lives of the Batman is a serious academic exploration of the cultural phenomenon called Batman. Marketing savvy alone did not build the Batman's extraordinary success; it encompasses a variety of audiences who have embraced the hero through a collage of different media manifestations during his long history. Batman's overlapping lives are illuminated in this critical anthology, which analyses the contexts of the character's production and reception across a wide spectrum of time and media forms. This volume includes interviews with the character's original creators. The other essays consider such questions as the political economy of comic book and film production processes; the cult status of the sixty's television series in various fan communities; and the postmodernism of past and present Batman films. Using the tools of cultural studies, the book unmasks the Caped Crusader's mysterious attraction.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Target group
College/higher education
Postgraduate
Dimensions
Height: 240 mm
Width: 161 mm
Thickness: 17 mm
Weight
514 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-032-44103-0 (9781032441030)
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Roberta E. Pearson | William Uricchio
The Many Lives of the Batman
Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media
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Roberta Pearson | William Uricchio
The Many Lives of the Batman
Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media
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02/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
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Roberta E. Pearson | William Uricchio
The Many Lives of the Batman
Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media
E-Book
02/2023
1st Edition
Routledge
€39.49
Available for download
Persons
Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio
Content
Acknowledgements Holy Shifting Signifies: Foreword Contributors Introduction 1. Batman: Commodity as Myth 2. Notes from The Batcave: An Interview with Dennis O'Neil 3. Batman and the Twilight of the Idols: An Interview with Frank Miller 4. "Holy Commodity Fetish, Batman!": The Political Economy of a Commercial Intertext 5. Batman and His Audience: The Dialectic of Culture 6. Batman: The Ethnography 7. Same Bat Channel, Different Bat Times: Mass Culture and Popular Memory 8. Batman, Deviance and Camp 9. Batman: The Movie, Narrative: The Hyperconscious 10. "I'm Not Fooled by That Cheap Disguise"