Chris Richardson

Batman and the Joker

Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 110
• Erscheinungstermin: 28. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 144mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 268g
• ISBN-13: 9780367409210
• ISBN-10: 0367409216
• Artikelnr.: 59987448

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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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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