THE MANY LIVES OF THE BATMAN: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media

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EDITED BY ROBERTA E. PEARSON AND WILLIAM URICCHIO

FROM THE COVER: The Many Lives of the Batman is the first serious academic exploration of this intriguing cultural phenomenon. Marketing savvy alone did not build the Batman's extraordinary success; it encompasses a variety of audiences who have embraced the hero through a collage of different media manifestations during his fifty-year history. Batman's overlapping lives are illuminated in this critical anthology, which analyzes the contexts of the character's production and reception across a wide spectrum of time and media forms.

NY. Routledge. 1991. 225p