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245 00 $aRiddle me this, batman! :$bessays on the universe of the Dark Knight /$cedited by Kevin K. Durand and Mary K. Leigh.
260 $aJefferson, N.C. :$bMcFarland & Co.,$cc2011.
300 $avi, 222 p. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520 $a"These essays examine how Batman is both the canvas on which our cultural identity is painted, and the Eternal Other that informs our own journeys of understanding. Questions relating to a wide range of disciplines--philosophy, literature, psychology, pop culture, and more--are thoroughly explored, in a manner that will appeal both to scholars and to fans"--$cProvided by publisher.
505 1 $aVirtue in Gotham: Aristotle's Batman -- The Dark Knight Errant: Power and Authority in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns -- Why Adam West Matters: Camp and Classical Virtue -- Dark Knight, White Knight, and the King of Anarchy -- Introducing a Little Anarchy: The Dark Knight and Power Structures on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown -- Batman's Canon: Hybridity and the Interpretation of the Superhero -- Seminar on the Burloined Batarang: Batman and Lacan -- Queer Matters in The Dark Knight Returns: Why We Insist on a Sexual Identity for Batman -- The Hero We Read: The Dark Knight, Popular Allegoresis, and Blockbuster Ideology -- Rolling the Boulder in Gotham -- Figuration of the Superheroic Revolutionary: The Dark Knight of Negation -- "One May Smile, and Smile, and Be a Villain": Grim Humor and the Warrior Ethos -- "And Doesn't All the World Love a Clown?": Finding the Joker and the Representation of His Evil -- Call It (Friendo): Flipism and Folklore in No Country for Old Men and The Dark Knight.
650 0 $aBatman (Fictitious character)
700 1 $aDurand, Kevin K. J.$q(Kevin Karl Jones),$d1967-
700 1 $aLeigh, Mary K.
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