Politics in Gotham : the Batman universe and political thought /
Scholars from a variety of fields, including 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...
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New York :
Palgrave Macmillan,
[2019]
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: "I don't want Batman as president" / Damien K. Picariello
- Justice unmasked / Alan I. Baily
- The Dark Knight: toward a democratic tragedy / Steven Johnston
- The heroism of sober expectations / Damien K. Picariello
- Deconstructing Batman's legitimacy: the radical political critique of Christopher Nolan's Batman cycle / William J. Berger
- Batman the noble dog: the costs of spiritedness for the individual and society / Ian J. Drake and Matthew B. Lloyd
- The Dark Prince of the Republic: Machiavelli, Batman, and Gotham City / Anthony Petros Spanakos
- The lion, the fox, and the bat: the animal nature of Machiavelli's The Prince and Batman / Daniel V. Goff
- Criminal justice in Gotham: the role of the Dark Knight / Mark D. White
- The retributive Knight / Mohamad Al-Hakim
- Politics as "the product of everything you fear": Scarecrow as phobia entrepreneur / Christina M. Knopf
- #FAKENEWS in Gotham City / Salvatore James Russo
- Batgirls and the politics of feminism in Gotham / Carolyn Cocca
- Dawn of justice: revisioning, accountability, and Batman in the twenty-first century / Aidan Diamond
- Index.