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Politics in Gotham : the Batman universe and political thought. /Damien K Picariello.

By: Picariello, Damien KContributor(s): Picariello, Damien KMaterial type: Text

TextPublisher number: : Zafaa Books & Distributors | : 313/56F,Anand Nagar, Inderlok, Delhi-110035Publication details: , Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan , 2019Description: xv, 237 pages : color illustrations :22cmISBN: 9783030428693Subject(s): Batman films | Batman films Political aspects | Film criticism | Literary criticism | Politics in literatureDDC classification: 791.436 PIC

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

Summary: Scholars from a variety of fields - 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 thought. What can Batman's role in Gotham City teach us about democracy? How do Batman's vigilantism and his violence fit within a society committed to the rule of law? What's the relationship between politics in Gotham and politics in our own communities? From Machiavelli to the fake news phenomenon, this book provides a compelling introduction to the politics behind one of the world's most enduring pop culture figures

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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
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Scholars from a variety of fields - 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 thought. What can Batman's role in Gotham City teach us about democracy? How do Batman's vigilantism and his violence fit within a society committed to the rule of law? What's the relationship between politics in Gotham and politics in our own communities? From Machiavelli to the fake news phenomenon, this book provides a compelling introduction to the politics behind one of the world's most enduring pop culture figures

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