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Batman and the Joker
- Author
- Chris Richardson
- Narrator
- George Newbern
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Publish Date
- 2 February 2021
- Run Time
- 4 hours 32 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Thematic chapters investigate how artists, writers, and fans engage with, challenge, and interpret gendered and sexual representations by focusing on one of the most popular and heated fictional rivalries ever inked: that of Batman and the Joker. The monograph provides critical insights into ways queer reading practices can open new forms of understanding that have generally remained implicit and unexplored in mainstream comics studies.
This accessible and interdisciplinary approach to the Caped Crusader and the Clown Prince of Crime engages diverse fields of scholarship such as comics studies, critical theory, cultural studies, gender studies, literature, psychoanalysis, media studies, and queer theory.
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Details
- Author
- Chris Richardson
- Narrator
- George Newbern
- Duration
- 4 hours 32 minutes
- Release Date
- 2 February 2021
- ISBN
- 9781705290989
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Tantor Media, Inc
- Genre
- Popular culture, Literary studies: fiction, novelists and prose writers, Graphic novel and comic books: guides and reviews, Sex and sexuality: advice and issues, Graphic novel / Comic book: super-heroes and super-villains
Synopsis
This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular culture.Thematic chapters investigate how artists, writers, and fans engage with, challenge, and interpret gendered and sexual representations by focusing on one of the most popular and heated fictional rivalries ever inked: that of Batman and the Joker. The monograph provides critical insights into ways queer reading practices can open new forms of understanding that have generally remained implicit and unexplored in mainstream comics studies.This accessible and interdisciplinary approach to the Caped Crusader and the Clown Prince of Crime engages diverse fields of scholarship such as comics studies, critical theory, cultural studies, gender studies, literature, psychoanalysis, media studies, and queer theory.
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