Glen Weldon

Broschiertes Buch

The Caped Crusade

Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

Beschreibung

A witty, intelligent cultural history from Glen Weldon that explains Batman’s rises and falls throughout the ages—and what his story tells us about ourselves.

Autor

Glen Weldon has been a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a movie usher, a PR flack, an inept marine biologist, and a slightly-better-than-ept competitive swimmer. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate, The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The Philadelphia Inquirer , and many other places. He is a panelist on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and reviews books and comic books for NPR.org. The author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography and The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture, he lives in Washington, DC.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon & Schuster
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. März 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 213mm x 139mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 351g
• ISBN-13: 9781476756738
• ISBN-10: 1476756732
• Artikelnr.: 45341281