Batman and the Joker : contested sexuality in popular culture
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Batman and the Joker : contested sexuality in popular culture
（Routledge focus on gender, sexuality, and comics / series editor Frederik Byrn Køhlert）
Routledge, 2021
- : hbk
Available at 2 libraries
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. [101]-106) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
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.
Table of Contents
- Introduction
- Chapter One: Dragged into Desire: Bruce Wayne's Woman Problem
- Chapter Two: Lavender Lapels and Poison Pansies: The Joker as Queer Trickster
- Chapter Three: With the Lights Out: The Then and There of Gotham City
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