Beschreibung:
First published in 1991, The Many Lives of the Batman is a serious academic exploration of the cultural phenomenon called Batman.
Acknowledgements Holy Shifting Signifies: Foreword Contributors Introduction 1. Batman: Commodity as Myth 2. Notes from The Batcave: An Interview with Dennis O'Neil 3. Batman and the Twilight of the Idols: An Interview with Frank Miller 4. "Holy Commodity Fetish, Batman!": The Political Economy of a Commercial Intertext 5. Batman and His Audience: The Dialectic of Culture 6. Batman: The Ethnography 7. Same Bat Channel, Different Bat Times: Mass Culture and Popular Memory 8. Batman, Deviance and Camp 9. Batman: The Movie, Narrative: The Hyperconscious 10. "I'm Not Fooled by That Cheap Disguise"