1st Edition
Batman and the Joker Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture
Introduction
Reading the Dark Knight
Queering the Caped Crusader
Investigating the World’s Greatest Detective
Chapter One: Dragged into Desire: Bruce Wayne’s Woman Problem
Traces of Batman
Desire and the Dark Knight
The Bat and the Cat
Chapter Two: Lavender Lapels and Poison Pansies: The Joker as Queer Trickster
The Man Who Laughs
Straight and Narrow
The Fraternity of Saps
Death of the Family
Chapter Three: With the Lights Out: The Then and There of Gotham City
Of Other Spaces
Profound Silences
No Man’s Land
List of Comics
Biography
Chris Richardson is Associate Professor and Chair of Communication Studies at Young Harris College in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Georgia. He is also Program Director of the Popular Culture Minor and Curator of the Andy Rowe Comics Collection there. His previous publications include Covering Canadian Crime: What Journalists Should Know and the Public Should Question (2016), co-edited with Romayne Smith Fullerton, and Habitus of the Hood (2012), co-edited with Hans Skott-Myhre. He also hosts This Is Not A Pipe Podcast (tinapp.org), where he interviews authors of new books in Critical Theory, Cultural Studies, and Philosophy.
