Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture by Chris Richardson

Description: Batman and the Joker by Chris Richardson This is a cultural analysis and queer reading of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics providing an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular culture. FORMAT Paperback CONDITION Brand New Publisher 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. Author Biography Chris Richardson is Associate Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at Young Harris College in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. He is also Program Director of the Popular Culture Minor and Curator of the Andy Rowe Comics Collection there. His previous publications include Covering Canadian Crime: What Journalists Should Know and the Public Should Question (2016), co-edited with Romayne Smith Fullerton, and Habitus of the Hood (2012), co-edited with Hans Skott-Myhre. He also hosts This Is Not A Pipe Podcast (tinapp.org), where he interviews authors of new books in Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy. Table of Contents Introduction; Chapter One: Dragged into Desire: Bruce Waynes 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 Details ISBN0367562995 Author Chris Richardson Pages 110 Publisher Taylor & Francis Ltd Year 2022 ISBN-10 0367562995 ISBN-13 9780367562991 Publication Date 2022-04-01 UK Release Date 2022-04-01 Format Paperback Imprint Routledge Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Illustrations 11 Halftones, black and white; 11 Illustrations, black and white AU Release Date 2022-04-01 NZ Release Date 2022-04-01 Subtitle Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture Series Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics Alternative 9780367409210 DEWEY 741.53521 Audience Tertiary & Higher Education We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. With fast shipping, low prices, friendly service and well over a million items - you're bound to find what you want, at a price you'll love! TheNile_Item_ID:135491555;

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