The Many Lives of the Batman : Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media

著者名：Pearson, Roberta (EDT)/Uricchio, William (EDT)

Routledge（2023/02/28発売）

• 言語：ENG
• ISBN：9781032441047
• eISBN：9781000884876

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.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements Holy Shifting Signifies: Foreword Tony Bennet Contributors Introduction William Uricchio and Roberta E. Pearson 1. Batman: Commodity as Myth Bill Boichel 2. Notes from The Batcave: An Interview with Dennis O’Neil Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio 3. Batman and the Twilight of the Idols: An Interview with Frank Miller Christopher Sharrett 4. "Holy Commodity Fetish, Batman!": The Political Economy of a Commercial Intertext Eileen Meehan 5. Batman and His Audience: The Dialectic of Culture Patrick Parsons 6. Batman: The Ethnography Camille Bacon-Smith with Tyrone Yarborough 7. Same Bat Channel, Different Bat Times: Mass Culture and Popular Memory Lynn Spigel and Henry Jenkins 8. Batman, Deviance and Camp Andy Medhurst 9. Batman: The Movie, Narrative: The Hyperconscious Jim Collins 10. "I’m Not Fooled by That Cheap Disguise" William Uricchio and Roberta E. Pearson