Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture

by Chris Richardson

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0367409216
• ISBN13: 9780367409210
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 110 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 5.5" x 8.5"