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This edited collection centers Gotham's villains and their importance for both Batman and the superhero genre. The analyses examining this varied rogues' gallery raise fundamental questions about what it means to be in a relationship with others and possibilities for future pedagogical and scholarly inquiry.
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Introduction. Not Exactly a Cowardly Lot: Gotham's Villains
Marco Favaro and Justin F. Martin
Chapter 1. Death, Monk, and Strange: The Predecessors to the Supervillain in Detective Comics
John Darowski
Part I. Arkham City: The Asylum, the City and the Ones Who Rule Them
Chapter 2. "This Place Isn't a Prison": Institutions, Choice, and the Case of Arkham Asylum
Tony Spanakos and Damien K. Picariello
Chapter 3. "You Can't Fight City Hall!": The Villains Hidden in Gotham's Government
Ian J. Drake and Matthew B. Lloyd
Chapter 4. The Owls Nesting in the Bat's City: Secrecy, Gotham's Social Structures, and the Court of Owls
James C. Taylor
Part II. Confronting Batman: Outsiders, Doppelgängers and Parodies
Chapter 5. The Mutants, the Sons of Batman, and the Long Shadow of the Bat
Damien K. Picariello
Chapter 6. Bane: the Man Who "Doppelgängered" the Bat
Jesús Jiménez-Varea
Chapter 7. Outcasts and Oppressors: Killer Moth and Killer Croc
Jason D. DeHart
Part III Creating a Villainous Identity: Form
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Justin F. Martin, is associate professor of psychology at Whitworth University.Marco Favaro, is program manager at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Berlin.Matthew Brake (M.Div., Regent University) is the series editor for the Theology and Pop Culture series and runs the Popular Culture and Theology blog.John Darowski is a PhD candidate in comparative humanities at the University of Louisville.Liz W. Faber is assistant professor of English and communication at Dean College and adjunct instructor of scientific and academic writing at University of Maryland Baltimore’s Graduate School.Marco Favaro, is program manager at the University of Europe for Applied Sciences in Berlin.Justin F. Martin, is associate professor of psychology at Whitworth University.Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy and Letters at the University of Buenos Aires, Argentina, where he teaches courses on international horror film. He also serves on the editorial board of New Cinemas: Journal of Contemporary Film (Intellect), Director of the horror cinema research group "Grite," and Director of the Spanish horror studies series "Terror: Estudios Críticos" (Universidad de Cádiz).
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This edited collection centers Gotham’s villains and their importance for both Batman and the superhero genre. The analyses examining this varied rogues’ gallery raise fundamental questions about what it means to be in a relationship with others and possibilities for future pedagogical and scholarly inquiry.
