Politics in Gotham The Batman Universe and Political Thought /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Picariello, Damien K. (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019.
• Subjects: Political theory.; Popular Culture.; Motion pictures and television.; Film genres.; Political Theory.; Popular Culture .; Screen Studies.; Genre.

In Politics in Gotham, scholars from a variety of fields-political science, philosophy, law, and others-provide answers to the question: "What does Batman have to do with politics?" Contributors use the Batman canon, from the comics to the feature films, to explore a broad range of issues...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction: I Don't Want Batman as President
• 2. Justice Unmasked
• 3. The Dark Knight: Toward a Democratic Tragedy
• 4. The Heroism of 'Sober Expectations'
• 5. Deconstructing Batman's Legitimacy: The Radical Political Critique of Christopher Nolan's Batman Cycle
• 6. Batman the Noble Dog: The Costs of Spiritedness for the Individual and Society
• 7. The Dark Prince of the Republic: Machiavelli, Batman, and Gotham City
• 8. The Lion, the Fox, and the Bat: The Animal Nature of Machiavelli's The Prince and Batman
• 9. Criminal Justice in Gotham: The Role of the Dark Knight
• 10. The Retributive Knight
• 11. Politics as 'the Product of Everything You Fear': Scarecrow as Phobia Entrepreneur
• 12. #FAKENEWS in Gotham City
• 13. Batgirls and the Politics of Feminism in Gotham
• 14. Dawn of Justice: Accountability, Revisioning, and Batman in the 21st Century.