Holy Terror, Batman! Frank Miller’s Dark Knight and the Superhero as Hardboiled Terrorist

Conceived in the late thirties as “bold humanist response to Depression-era fears of runaway scientific advance and soulless industrialism” (Morrison 2012, 6), the superhero has flourished as one of the most resilient archetypes of American popular culture. This essay analyses the literary and cultu...

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Main Author: Daniele Croci
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Milano 2016-05-01
Series:Altre Modernità
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Online Access:https://riviste.unimi.it/index.php/AMonline/article/view/7183

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