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It’s natural to open up a collection like this and ask, somewhat skeptically, “What does Batman have to do with politics?”
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This account is informed by Will Brooker, Batman Unmasked (New York: Continuum, 2005), 53 and forward. Discussions of this same scene appear in several of the chapters to follow.
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Christopher Sharrett, “Batman and the Twilight of the Idols: An Interview with Frank Miller,” in The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media, eds. Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio (New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991), 43.
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For instance: Will Brooker, Batman Unmasked (New York: Continuum, 2005); Will Brooker, Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman (London: I.B. Tauris & Co., 2012); Roberta E. Pearson and William Uricchio, eds., The Many Lives of the Batman: Critical Approaches to a Superhero and his Media (New York: Routledge, Chapman and Hall, 1991).
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Geoff Klock, “The Revisionary Superhero Narrative,” in The Superhero Reader, ed. Charles Hatfield, Jeet Heer, and Kent Worcester (Jackson, MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2013), 119, emphasis mine.
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Picariello, D.K. (2019). Introduction: “I Don’t Want Batman as President”. In: Picariello, D. (eds) Politics in Gotham. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05776-3_1
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