Fan Phenomena: Batman

Fan Phenomena: BatmanFan Phenomena: Batman explores the worldwide devotion to the Dark Knight, from his inauspicious beginnings on the comic book page to the cult television series of the 1960s and the critically acclaimed films and video games of today. Considering everything from convention cosplay to fan fiction that imagines the Joker as a romantic lead, the essays here acknowledge and celebrate fan responses that go far beyond the scope of the source material. As the

Day pairs images with commentary that details the aspects of the work that are visually expounded and explain in Day's images

the physical infrastructure and sensorial experiences of two millennia are now interwoven within an invisible digital matrix

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it is commonplace to define audiences in opposition to the public: in both popular and elite discourses

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artists and activists

ranging from hardware malfunctions to software errors to human ineptitude

blurring boundaries between disciplines

Rounding out this addition to the Directory of World Cinema series are fifty full-colour stills

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