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Terrill, Robert E. "Spectacular Repression: Sanitizing the Batman." Critical Studies in Media Communication 17. (2000): 493–509. Added by: joachim (9/11/10, 2:59 PM) |
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| Resource type: Journal Article Language: en: English Peer reviewed DOI: 10.1080/15295030009388415 BibTeX citation key: Terrill2000 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Batman", Adaptation, Film adaptation, Superhero, USA Creators: Terrill Collection: Critical Studies in Media Communication |
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Batman Forever is a mass-mediated public text crafted in response to a perceived need to “sanitize”; the Batman by resolving the psycho-sexual ambiguities that define him. The textual resources mobilized toward this end consist primarily of simultaneously presenting potentially ameliorative archetypal forms and stripping these forms of their ameliorative potential. The resulting text is a paradigm of managed meaning, denying its own polysemy and thus making itself unavailable to its audiences as “equipment for living.”; Batman Forever may seem, to some, more palatable than its predecessors, and Batman may seem more sane, but this text offers a particularly insidious form of repression—Batman is a cultural artifact rendered culturally useless through excessive demystification.
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