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 explored in a manner that will appeal both to scholars and to fans of the Caped Crusader alike.
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 explored in a manner that will appeal both to scholars and to fans of the Caped Crusader alike.
Kevin K. Durand is the dean of academics at the LISA Academy College Preparatory School in Little Rock, Arkansas. He has published broadly in philosophy, religion, and ethics. Mary K. Leigh is a doctoral academy fellow at the University of Arkansas.
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Table of Contents Preface MARY K. LEIGH Introduction: What Has Adorno to Do with Gotham? KEVIN K. DURAND Part One: The Ethics and Anarchy of Batman 1. Virtue in Gotham: Aristotle's Batman MARY K. LEIGH 2. The Dark Knight Errant: Power and Authority in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns CHRISTOPHER BUNDRICK 3. Why Adam West Matters: Camp and Classical Virtue KEVIN K. DURAND 4. Dark Knight, White Knight, and the King of Anarchy STEPHANIE CARMICHAEL 5. Introducing a Little Anarchy: The Dark Knight and Power Structures on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown SUDIPTO SANYAL Part Two: Batman and Literary Theory 6. Batman's Canon: Hybridity and the Interpretation of the Superhero KEVIN K. DURAND 7. Seminar on the Purloined Batarang: Batman and Lacan MITCH FRYE 8. Queer Matters in The Dark Knight Returns: Why We Insist on a Sexual Identity for Batman JENÉE WILDE 9. The Hero We Read: The Dark Knight, Popular Allegoresis, and Blockbuster Ideology ANDREA COMISKEY 10. Rolling the Boulder in Gotham RANDY DUNCAN 11. Figuration of the Superheroic Revolutionary: The Dark Knight of Negation D. T. KOFOED Part Three: Batman and Beyond 12. "One May Smile, and Smile, and Be a Villain": Grim Humor and the Warrior Ethos MELANIE WILSON 13. "And Doesn't All the World Love a Clown?": Finding the Joker and the Representation of His Evil MICHAEL SMITH 14. Call It (Friendo): Flipism and Folklore in No Country for Old Men and The Dark Knight MATTHEW FOTIS About the Contributors Index
Table of Contents Preface MARY K. LEIGH Introduction: What Has Adorno to Do with Gotham? KEVIN K. DURAND Part One: The Ethics and Anarchy of Batman 1. Virtue in Gotham: Aristotle's Batman MARY K. LEIGH 2. The Dark Knight Errant: Power and Authority in Frank Miller's Batman: The Dark Knight Returns CHRISTOPHER BUNDRICK 3. Why Adam West Matters: Camp and Classical Virtue KEVIN K. DURAND 4. Dark Knight, White Knight, and the King of Anarchy STEPHANIE CARMICHAEL 5. Introducing a Little Anarchy: The Dark Knight and Power Structures on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown SUDIPTO SANYAL Part Two: Batman and Literary Theory 6. Batman's Canon: Hybridity and the Interpretation of the Superhero KEVIN K. DURAND 7. Seminar on the Purloined Batarang: Batman and Lacan MITCH FRYE 8. Queer Matters in The Dark Knight Returns: Why We Insist on a Sexual Identity for Batman JENÉE WILDE 9. The Hero We Read: The Dark Knight, Popular Allegoresis, and Blockbuster Ideology ANDREA COMISKEY 10. Rolling the Boulder in Gotham RANDY DUNCAN 11. Figuration of the Superheroic Revolutionary: The Dark Knight of Negation D. T. KOFOED Part Three: Batman and Beyond 12. "One May Smile, and Smile, and Be a Villain": Grim Humor and the Warrior Ethos MELANIE WILSON 13. "And Doesn't All the World Love a Clown?": Finding the Joker and the Representation of His Evil MICHAEL SMITH 14. Call It (Friendo): Flipism and Folklore in No Country for Old Men and The Dark Knight MATTHEW FOTIS About the Contributors Index
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