Batman and the Joker: Contested Sexuality in Popular Culture - Hardcover

by Chris Richardson (Author)

This is a cultural analysis and queer reading of visual and narrative elements within Batman comics providing an important exploration of the ways readers and creators negotiate gender, identity, and sexuality in popular culture.

Author 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.