Politics in Gotham: The Batman Universe and Political Thought

ISBN-13: 9783030428693 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 237 str.

Damien K. Picariello

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Table of Contents

1.      Introduction: “I Don’t Want Batman as President”

Damien K. Picariello (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina Sumter)

2. Justice Unmasked

Alan I. Baily (Associate Professor of Political Science, Stephen F. Austin State University)

3. The Dark Knight: Toward a Democratic Tragedy

Steven Johnston (Neal A. Maxwell Chair in Political Theory, Public Policy, and Public Service and Professor of Political Science, University of Utah)

4. The Heroism of Sober Expectations

Damien K. Picariello (Assistant Professor of Political Science, University of South Carolina Sumter)

5. Deconstructing Batman’s Legitimacy: The Radical Political Critique of Christopher Nolan’s Batman Cycle

William J. Berger (Post-Doctoral Fellow, Master of Behavioral and Decision Sciences, University of Pennsylvania)

6. Batman the Noble Dog: The Costs of Spiritedness for the Individual and Society

Ian J. Drake (Associate Professor, Political Science and Law, Montclair State University)

Matthew B. Lloyd (Reviewer, DC Comics News)

7. The Dark Prince of the Republic: Machiavelli, Batman, and Gotham City

Anthony Petros Spanakos (Professor of Political Science, Montclair State University)

8. The Lion, the Fox, and the Bat: The Animal Nature of Machiavelli’s The Prince and Batman

Daniel V. Goff (Strategic Initiatives Group; Ph.D. Student, Humanities, Salve Regina University)

9. Criminal Justice in Gotham: The Role of the Dark Knight

Mark D. White (Professor of Philosophy, College of Staten Island/CUNY)

10. The Retributive Knight

Mohamad Al-Hakim (Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Florida Gulf Coast University)

11. Politics as “the Product of Everything You Fear”: Scarecrow as Phobia Entrepreneur

Christina M. Knopf (Assistant Professor of Communication Studies, SUNY Cortland)

12. #FAKENEWS in Gotham City

Salvatore Russo (Assistant Professor of Political Science, California State University Dominguez Hills)

13. Batgirls and the Politics of Feminism in Gotham

Carolyn Cocca (Professor, Politics, Economics, and Law, SUNY Old Westbury)

14. Dawn of Justice: Accountability, Revisioning, and Batman in the 21^st Century

Aidan Diamond (Ph.D. Student, Comparative Studies in Literature and Culture, University of Southern California)

Index and Contributors Section (not sure of the order here)

O autorze

Damien K. Picariello is Assistant Professor of Political Science at the University of South Carolina Sumter, USA

Blurb

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 in politics and political thought. What can Batman’s role in Gotham City teach us about democracy? How do Batman’s vigilantism and his violence fit within a society committed to the rule of law? What’s the relationship between politics in Gotham and politics in our own communities? From Machiavelli to the fake news phenomenon, this book provides a compelling introduction to the politics behind one of the world’s most enduring pop culture figures.