Name: Hunting the Dark Knight By Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK)
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Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman by Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK)

Publishing alongside the world premiere of Christopher Nolan's third Batman film The Dark Knight Rises, Will Brooker's new book explores Batman's twenty-first century incarnations. Brooker's close analysis of Batman Begins and The Dark Knight offers a rigorous, accessible account of the complex relationship between popular films, audiences, and producers in our age of media convergence. By exploring themes of authorship, adaptation and intertextuality, he addresses a myriad of questions raised by these films: did Batman Begins end when The Dark Knight began? Does its story include the Gotham Knight DVD, or the 'Why So Serious' viral marketing campaign? Is it separate from the parallel narratives of the Arkham Asylum videogame, the monthly comic books, the animated series and the graphic novels? Can the brightly campy incarnations of the Batman ever be fully repressed by The Dark Knight, or are they an intrinsic part of the character? Do all of these various manifestations feed into a single Batman metanarrative? This will be a vital text for film students and academics, as well as legions of Batman fans.

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'A fascinating and incredibly detailed analysis of comic fiction's most powerful and successful hero.' - Pat Mills, author of Batman: The Book of Shadows 'Through the prism of poststructuralism, Will Brooker casts dazzling new light on Batman as myth, brand, and canon. Hunting the Dark Knight is, quite simply, a brilliant study of the Batman and contemporary processes of rebooting, franchising and shaping a cultural icon.' - Matt Hills, author of Triumph of a Time Lord

About Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK)

Will Brooker is the leading academic expert on the Dark Knight, and author of the cultural history of Batman, Batman Unmasked. His other books include Using the Force and Alice's Adventures. He edited the Audience Studies Reader and The Blade Runner Experience, and wrote the BFI Film Classics volume on Star Wars. He is currently Director of Research in Film and Television at Kingston University, London, and editor of Cinema Journal.

Prologue Chapter 1 The Nolan Function: Authorship Chapter 2 The Batman Matrix: Adaptation Chapter 3 Dark Knight Lockdown: Realism and Repression Chapter 4 Carnival on Infinite Earths: Continuity and Crisis Chapter 5 The Never-Ending War: Deconstruction and the Dark Knight Epilogue: Time and the Batman Bibliography Index

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CIN1848852800VG

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9781848852808

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1848852800

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Hunting the Dark Knight: Twenty-First Century Batman by Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK)

Author

Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK)

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Paperback

Publisher

Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Year published

20120531

Number of pages

272

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Hunting the Dark Knight Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK)

Hunting the Dark Knight by Will Brooker (Kingston University, UK)

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