| Description |
1 online resource (vi, 110 pages) : illustrations (black and white) |
| Series |
Routledge focus on gender, sexuality, and comics |
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Routledge focus on gender, sexuality, and comics.
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| Contents |
Introduction: Reading the Dark Knight Queering the Caped Crusader Investigating the World's Greatest Detective -- Chapter One: Dragged into Desire: Bruce Wayne's Woman Problem -- Traces of Batman -- Desire and the Dark Knight -- The Bat and the Cat -- Chapter Two: Lavender Lapels and Poison Pansies: The Joker as Queer Trickster -- The Man Who Laughs -- Straight and Narrow -- The Fraternity of Saps -- Death of the Family -- Chapter Three: With the Lights Out: The Then and There of Gotham City -- Of Other Spaces -- Profound Silences -- No Man's Land -- List of Comics |
| Summary |
"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 Crown 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 27, 2020) |
| Subject |
Batman (Fictitious character)
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Joker (Fictitious character)
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| SUBJECT |
Batman (Fictitious character) fast (OCoLC)fst00828807 |
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Joker (Fictitious character) fast (OCoLC)fst00983953 |
| Subject |
Gender identity in literature.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects
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Gender identity in literature
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2020034439 |
| ISBN |
9780367809874 |
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0367809877 |
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1000169707 |
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9781000169683 |
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1000169685 |
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9781000169690 |
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1000169693 |
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9781000169706 |
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