[Commlist] New Book: Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture

Chris Richardson is pleased to announce the recent publication of 
/Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture/ as part 
of the series /Routledge Focus on Gender, Sexuality, and Comics/.

This cultural analysis of visual and narrative elements within Batman 
comics provides an important exploration of the ways readers and 
creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular culture. 
Thematic chapters investigate how artists, writers, and fans engage 
with, challenge, and interpret gendered and sexual representations by 
focusing on one of the most popular and heated fictional rivalries ever 
inked: that of Batman and the Joker. The monograph provides critical 
insights into ways queer reading practices can open new forms of 
understanding that have generally remained implicit and unexplored in 
mainstream comics studies. This accessible and interdisciplinary 
approach to the Caped Crusader and the Clown Prince of Crime engages 
diverse fields of scholarship such as Comics Studies, Critical Theory, 
Cultural Studies, Gender Studies, Literature, Psychoanalysis, Media 
Studies, and Queer Theory.

TABLE OF CONTENTS:

Introduction

Chapter One: Dragged into Desire: Bruce Wayne’s Woman Problem

Chapter Two: Lavender Lapels and Poison Pansies: The Joker as Queer 
Trickster

Chapter Three: With the Lights Out: The Then and There of Gotham City

List of Comics

20% Discount Available - enter the code SDC20 at checkout*

Routledge website: www.routledge.com/9780367409210 
<http://www.routledge.com/9780367409210>

Author’s website: www.chrisrichardson.dev/batman 
<http://www.chrisrichardson.dev/batman>

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