Pearson,
Roberta E., and William Uricchio, eds. The Many Lives
of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media.
New York: Routledge, 1991. ISBN 0-415-90346-7 (cloth), 0-415-90347-5
(paper).
London: BFI, 1991. ISBN 0-85170-275-9 (cloth), 0-85170-276-7 (paper).
NOTE:
The page numbers in this Table of Contents
refer to the Routledge (U.S.) edition.
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Acknowledgements . . . v
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Holy Shifting Signifiers: Foreword, Tony Bennett .
. . viii
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Contributors . . . x
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Introduction, William Uricchio and Roberta E. Pearson
. . . 1
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Batman: Commodity as Myth, Bill Bloichel . . . 4
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Notes from The Batcave: An Interview Dennis O'Neil, Roberta
E. Pearson
and William Uricchio . . . 18
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Batman and the Twilight of the Idols: An Interview with Frank Miller, Christopher
Sharrett . . . 33
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"Holy Commodity Fetish, Batman!": The Political Economy of a Political
Intertext, Eileen Meehan . . . 47
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Batman and His Audience: The Dialectic of Culture, Patrick
Parsons
. . . 66
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Batman: The Ethnography, Camille Bacon-Smith with Tyrone
Yarborough
. . . 90
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Same Bat Channel, Different Bat Times: Mass Culture and Popular Memory,
Lynn
Spiegel and Henry Jenkins . . . 117
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Batman, Deviance, and Camp Andy Medhurst . . . 149
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Batman: The Movie, Narrative: The Hyperconscious, Jim Collins
.
. . 164
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"I'm Not Fooled by that Cheap Disguise," William Uricchio and
Roberta
E. Pearson . . . 182
Reviews
in Print
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Anderson, John. [Review.] Postmodern Culture 1.3
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