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Hunting the Dark Knight
Publishing alongside the world premiere of Christopher Nolan's third Batman film “The Dark Knight Rises”, Will Brooker's new book explores Batman's twenty-first century incarnations. Brooker's close analysis of “Batman Begins” and “The Dark Knight” offers a rigorous, accessible account of the complex relationship between popular films, audiences, and producers in our age of media convergence. By exploring themes of authorship, adaptation and intertextuality, he addresses a myriad of questions raised by these films: did “Batman Begins” end when “The Dark Knight began? Does its story include the Gotham Knight DVD, or the ‘Why So Serious’ viral marketing campaign? Is it separate from the parallel narratives of the Arkham Asylum videogame, the monthly comic books, the animated series and the graphic novels? Can the brightly campy incarnations of the Batman ever be fully repressed by “The Dark Knight”, or are they an intrinsic part of the character? Do all of these various manifestations feed into a single Batman metanarrative? This will be a vital text for film students and academics, as well as legions of Batman fans.
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Politics in Gotham : the Batman universe and political thought
Scholars from a variety of fields - political science, philosophy, law, and others - provide answers to the question: What does Batman have to do with politics? Contributors use the Batman canon, from the comics to the feature films, to explore a broad range of issues in politics and political thought. What can Batman's role in Gotham City teach us about democracy? How do Batman?s vigilantism and his violence fit within a society committed to the rule of law? What?s the relationship between politics in Gotham and politics in our own communities? From Machiavelli to the fake news phenomenon, this book provides a compelling introduction to the politics behind one of the world?s most enduring pop culture figures.
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Batman with Superman is going to be huge : Gershon
Off Beat Management Partner Andy Gershon discusses the weekend's box office hits and plans to unite Batman and Superman on screen with Sara Eisen on Bloomberg Television's 'Market Makers.'
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Batman unmasked : analysing a cultural icon
Over the sixty years of his existence, Batman has encountered an impressive array of cultural icons and has gradually become one himself.This acclaimed book examines what Batman means and has meant to the various audiences, groups and communities who have tried to control and interpret him over the decades.
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Additionality and cohesion in transfictional worlds
[...]expansion seems implicitly to imply cohesion, whereas additionality does not; an addition can have fairly minimal points of contact with the previously established transfiction. [...]the tentative nature of the hypotheses, which must be confirmed or disproved by collaborative research among scholars well versed in multiple and different transfictions.
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From Static to Motion Pictures
Before Satrapi's Oscar attention, writer/artist Daniel Clowes was nominated for adapting his own Ghost World, while another writer/artist Frank Miller was not only involved in scripting, but also co-directing Sin City, the CGI-heavy version of his noir comics. For his first solo effort in the directors chair, Miller will be keeping with comic books; but rather than adapting one of his own stories he has surprisingly chosen to bring legendary sequential art innovator Will Eisner's The Spirit to the screen, the equivalent of J.K. Rowling forging a career as a director by adapting The Lord of the Rings. For these brave filmmakers, adapting a comic becomes a balancing act between catering for an audience who spew digital bile the moment they hear Spider-Man's big-screen web-shooters will be organic, and those who wouldn't care if Spider-Man's webs shot out of his nostrils provided the film was passable enough entertainment to accompany their Friday night popcorn fix. The comic book-based Ghost World and X-Men are considered among the most successful film adaptations from the form, yet both make wholesale changes that much more maligned efforts such as Daredevil and Fantastic Four didn't dare.
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Crime in Comics and the Graphic Novel
This chapter contains sections titled:
Comic Books
Graphic Novels
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