The Caped Crusade

Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture

Glen Weldon (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2017
Simon & Schuster (Verlag)
978-1-4767-5673-8 (ISBN)

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A witty, intelligent cultural history from Glen Weldon that explains Batman’s rises and falls throughout the ages—and what his story tells us about ourselves.

The Caped Crusade is a fascinating, critically acclaimed chronicle of the rises and falls of one of the world’s most iconic superheroes and the fans who love him—now with a new afterword.
For nearly a century, Batman has cycled through eras of dark melodrama and light comedy and back again. How we perceive his character, whether he’s delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic double entendres with Robin the Boy Wonder, speaks to who we are and how we wish to be seen by the world. It’s this endless adaptability that has made him so lasting, and ultimately human.
But it’s also Batman’s fundamental nerdiness that uniquely resonates with his fans and makes them fiercely protective of him. As Weldon charts the evolution of Gotham’s Guardian from Bob Kane and Bill Finger’s hyphenated hero to Christopher Nolan’s post-9/11 Dark Knight, he reveals how this symbol of justice has made us who we are today and why his legacy remains so strong. Well-researched, insightful, and engaging, The Caped Crusade, with a new afterword by the author, has something for everyone.

Glen Weldon has been a theater critic, a science writer, an oral historian, a writing teacher, a bookstore clerk, a movie usher, a PR flack, an inept marine biologist, and a slightly-better-than-ept competitive swimmer. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Republic, Slate, The Atlantic, The Village Voice, The Philadelphia Inquirer, and many other places. He is a panelist on NPR’s Pop Culture Happy Hour and reviews books and comic books for NPR.org. The author of Superman: The Unauthorized Biography and The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture, he lives in Washington, DC.

Erscheinungsdatum	28.03.2017
Zusatzinfo	1x8pg b&w insert
Verlagsort	New York
Sprache	englisch
Maße	140 x 213 mm
Gewicht	318 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Comic / Humor / Manga ► Comic
	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Film / TV
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Allgemeines / Lexika
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Zeitgeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Kommunikation / Medien ► Medienwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-4767-5673-2 / 1476756732
ISBN-13	978-1-4767-5673-8 / 9781476756738
Zustand	Neuware