Thursday, December 12, 2024

Masculinity and Batman

 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&opi=89978449&url=https://www.apa.org/pubs/journals/features/men-men0000398.pdf&ved=2ahUKEwjuoIGs4KOKAxVZ6ckDHWMUOJQQFnoECBIQBg&sqi=2&usg=AOvVaw3YXfsgYx0XhXuyIIsEX95D


https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10509208.2015.1094361


https://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=superhero+films+masculinity+studies&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart#d=gs_qabs&t=1734059098788&u=%23p%3DrJRTT6AeW8MJ

Paternalism, performative masculinity and the post-9/11 cowboy in Christopher Nolan’s Dark Knight trilogy

Cathrine Avery
The Australasian Journal of Popular Culture 12 (1), 65-81, 2023

Dark Knight at Fifteen: An Intersectional Retrospective

Erin Casey-Williams
REDEN. Revista Española de Estudios Norteamericanos 5 (2), 154–170-154–170, 2024
Characters within The Dark Knight access intersectional, systemic privileges linked to the performance of masculinity, whiteness, neoliberal class consciousness, and heteronormativity. Using cultural studies as the framework and intersectionality as the point of departure, this


In the batman, the privilege of being white and male and Rich does seem to be superseded by trauma. It's like what my spouse asked if Bruce Wayne is a billionaire why doesn't he give his money to the impoverished areas where we know then crime will go down. We'll, we learn why the money is gone

As far as masculinity that's a whole other story. This is a story where masculinity and the anger that can be pushed on to other bodies is changed during the film.

In fact  the individuation that Bruce Wayne goes through as a character



Problematic things
https://outwritenewsmag.org/2022/04/the-batman-2022-a-bisexuals-superhero-dream/#:~:text=I%20would%20even%20go%20further,my%20new%20favorite%20Bruce%20Wayne.

The batman IS an examination of toxic masculinity 
https://www.hercampus.com/school/gcu/the-batman-and-masculinity/
https://sunypress.edu/Blog/2022/Holy-Incel-Batman!-Part-1

https://www.standard.co.uk/culture/film/paul-dano-riddler-the-batman-movie-robert-pattinson-new-york-b985522.html

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