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Batman Unmasked: Analysing a Cultural Icon (2000)

von Will Brooker

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Over the sixty years of his existence, Batman has encountered an impressive array of cultural icons and has gradually become one himself. This fascinating book examines what Batman means and has meant to the various audiences, groups and communities who have tried to control and interpret him over the decades. Brooker reveals the struggles over Batman''s meaning by shining a light on the cultural issues of the day that impacted on the development of the character. They include: patriotic propaganda of the Second World War; the accusation that Batman was corrupting the youth of America by appea… (mehr)
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This book is a good examination of Batman's impact on society, but more than that it takes a good look at the impact of all comics. The author addresses issues of Batman's creation and his creators, war, propaganda, camp, homosexuality/homophobia and more.

He's very knowledgable and it's an interesting read, but after finishing it, you can't help but feel like Brooker had an agenda.

He seems to strongly defend the two most embattled topics of the Dark Knight - the 1960s TV series, and the question of his sexuality. It's one thing to be objective and fair in reporting these issues, but Brooker easily spends more than half his time explaining why the 1960s series wasn't as bad as we collectively remember it, and why Batman could be gay.

More than that, not only does he suggest that it's possible that Batman is gay, he suggests it might add more dimension to the character by opening him up to more situations. He quotes message board posts (a questionable form of research) and attacks any poster as "homophobic" if they try to assert that Batman is not gay.

Booker can spend all day examining the fictional life of Bruce Wayne off the page/screen, but that doesn't change the fact that Bruce Wayne HAS NO LIFE off the page/screen. We can only take him on what we have seen released from official sources (ie: DC Comics and WB). He reads a lot into subtext, which is fun, but that doesn't always mean it's the intended reading. I can apply political, religious and feminist readings to FRANKENSTEIN, but that doesn't mean it was Shelley's intention.

Regardless, Brooker is very knowledgable and informed, but the time he spends defending the two most embarrasing moments of Batman's history leads one to question his entire thesis -- especially when you take into account Brooker's own sexuality.

You'll feel like he had an agenda to promote.
  rsottney | Mar 19, 2008 |
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Twinkle, Twinkle Little Bat How I Wonder what You're at

(Lewis Carroll, Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Gloria Hunniford: Do you regard yourself as a cultural icon... Adam? Adam West:         ... it... doesn't matter.

(Adam West with Will Brooker and Gloria Hunniford, Open House with Gloria Hunniford, Channel 5, 14 April 2000)
What are now called 'Departments of English' will be renamed departments of 'Cultural Studies' where Batman comics, Mormon theme parks, television movies and rock will replace Chaucer, Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth and Wallace Stevens (Harold Bloom, The Western Canon, London: Macmillan (1994, p. 519)
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Thanks to: Denny O'Neil and Alan Asherman at DC Comics, who generously shared their time, their archives and their memories. Roberta Pearson for her support, her encouragement and her example. Deborah Jermyn for buying me Roberta's The Many Lives of the Batman second-hand in 1995. John Hartley for inspiring background presence and for always finding the money. David Barker at Continuum for his unflagging faith and enthusiasm. Fiona Graham for the index. Justine Davis, who loyally assisted with the New York research. Liz Brooker, who proofread my first Batman story in 1978. Pete Brooker, who brought home The Dark Knight Returns in 1985. Joe Brooker, boy wonder.

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May 1999
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I have kept a diary consistently since I was very young - since the age of seven, but more of that below - and on 29 July 1992 I pasted in two photographs, one from the Guardian and one from the Greenwich and Woolwich Mercury.
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Over the sixty years of his existence, Batman has encountered an impressive array of cultural icons and has gradually become one himself. This fascinating book examines what Batman means and has meant to the various audiences, groups and communities who have tried to control and interpret him over the decades. Brooker reveals the struggles over Batman''s meaning by shining a light on the cultural issues of the day that impacted on the development of the character. They include: patriotic propaganda of the Second World War; the accusation that Batman was corrupting the youth of America by appea

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