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Dec 09, 2015 how batman evolves along with americas fears. The book was a minor bestseller that created alarm in parents and galvanized them to campaign for censorship. Analyzing a cultural icon, on librarything librarything is a cataloging and social networking site for booklovers home groups talk zeitgeist. Analyzing a cultural icon what inspired you to write batman unmasked.
The idea of analyzing batman as a serious cultural icon may seem laughable until one realizes that there is some sixty years of history to the character and his companions. This is not a pop culture book this is an analysis of culture. 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. Seduction of the innocent is a book by germanamerican psychiatrist fredric wertham, published in 1954, that warned that comic books were a negative form of popular literature and a serious cause of juvenile delinquency. This time with what i consider to be the 2nd greatest batman film ever mask of the phantasm you can read the previous entries looking at. My socalled secret identity reinvents women in comics wired. In the hands of writer artist frank miller, the batman, perhaps comics greatest icon, connects and collides. Analyzing a cultural icon that werthams notorious reading of batman and robin as a homosexual couple was not of his own invention, but was suggested to him by homosexual males whom he interviewed. Will brooker lays out some excellent ideas concerning the development of batman from his origins nearly a century ago. Batman unmasked analyzing a cultural icon hc 2000 continuum. Creators and contexts brings together new scholarship surveying the production, distribution and reception of american comics from this pivotal decade to the present. Will brooker, in 2001, then an assistant professor of communications at the american international university in london, published batman unmaskedanalyzing a cultural icon, a booklength study, and this book, as a blurb extols, is a wellresearched history and an impressive tour of our cultures fascination with a mythos in its populist.
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