The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (786 Votes) |
| Asin | : | B01BPHJCXM |
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| Number of Pages | : | 345 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-06-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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How we perceive Batman's character, whether he's delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic double entendres with partner Robin on the comics page, speaks to who we are and how we wish to be seen by the world. Which is what makes Batman the perfect lens through which to understand geek culture, its current popularity, and its social significance. Today, fueled by the Internet, that breed of passion for elements of popular culture is everywhere. And it's Batman's fundamental nerdiness - his gadgets, his obsession, his oath, even his lack of superpowers - that uniquely resonates with his fans who feel a fiercely protective love for the character. For more than three-quarters of a century, he has cycled from a figure of darkness to one of lightness and back again; he's a bat-shaped Rorschach inkblot who takes on the various meanings
Another Great Weldon Book Glen Weldon first wrote my favorite book to date on the history, real world effect, and many iterations of Superman. Now he has done an equally well researched and compelling book on Batman. Even the most deeply entrenched fans of the character are such to find new information on the lore surrounding the Batman in The Caped Crusade. Strong recommend.. "Treadmill Treasure" according to Wells Maine. I've tried audiobooks at the gym a dozen times, and this is the only one I've gotten all the way through, the only one that made me look forward to the treadmill. It's Weldon's writing, for sure, which is a perfect blend of makes-you-feel-like-you're-learning-stuff prose and pretty good jokes that remind you that this is about Batman after all, and we can't take it too seriously (love that Weldon keeps reminding us that Batman is really just intellectual property owned and licensed by giant corporations). But I think what makes the audiobook so special (I own the hardcover too becausewell, after listening f. Nerds versus Normals Glen Weldon—author, critic, and effervescent panelist on NPR’s “Pop Culture Happy Hour” —writes of the Batman phenomenon from the standpoint of nerds versus “normals” cultures in the United States (and, presumably, beyond). His splendid book, “The Caped Crusade,” assumes that there is a nerd culture, such as that caricatured on the TV show “Big Bang Theory,” one, moreover, that is specifically focused on Batman, and what’s more, that there are “normals” distinct from them. One might just as well as point to Batman fans (the