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In the batman, the privilege of being white and male and Rich does seem to be superseded by trauma.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

Screenwriter directors with a vision

 https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/the-treatment/matt-reeves-the-batman

I mean, people who don't go to superhero movies might be missing out, or people who are going just for the spectacle or entertainment might be missing out, or missing out on how these movies can see or show Humanity in a way that dramas can't, or normal Thrillers can't, or normal horror movies can't.

I mean, we have a criminal billionaire who is in power and the militia coming down to take out president-elect.

The screenplay was finished just days before January 6th.

Movies Make Magic

 I might name my book

Movies Make Magic

 

 at the movies for cinetherapy, modern mythology, and healing Poetics 

Vanessa Angelica Villarreal has an amazing book titled magical realism essays on music memory fantasy and borders

I know I need to find something that pops like that

At the Movies: How Mind, Myth, and Memoir Make the Magic

something with poetry in it

 

poetry

movies

mental health or self care or cinema therapy

modern mythology

 

key terms!

Brilliant

 I love how this article takes the films narrator and creates a meta moment from the language of the film!

"So now then.

This is the story of a budding cinephile who stumbled upon an unusual film and resolved, insofar as any 13-year-old can set firm intentions, to spend the rest of his life watching, and writing about, movies. An eighth-grader cross-legged on the floor of his parents’ bedroom, clicking the channel to IFC and finding the trio of uncanny coincidences that make up the film’s prologue. A solitary, bookish boy whose dreams came true, after a fashion, who proved that movies really can change your life — albeit in ways you can never quite plan on. And it is in the humble opinion of this narrator that this is not just something that happened. This cannot be one of those things. This was not simply a matter of chance. These strange things happen all the time."

https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/movies/story/2024-12-06/magnolia-paul-thomas-anderson-1999-project

Forms

 I would love to include a letter to my son's or different Sons

Letter to Kimberly

Lists

Play with the you voice to represent my personal experiences

Dennis third person

Documents movie stubs, go through journals

Journals transcriptions

Collage

Describing scenes without noting movie

Describing the interview with Leonardo DiCaprio for the This Boy's Life movie

List of best top box office films

Experimental

 Experimental writing one thing I might try to do is switch from memoir to the movie description, as in describing what is happening to the movie and including dialogue but not mentioning the movie it came from. I would have it in the notes.

For instance talking about applying to McDonald's or working at McDonald's or even the thing about when I was asked to close and then having the switch to fast food nation the scene with the manager

My mom coming out to me followed by the scene in fried green tomatoes where the husband gets angry

Somewhere also collage was how the actors talked about how they played a queer but didn't want to be obvious just to escape the sensors

Like memoir, but memoir

 I like that Louise Krug as well as Jess Zimmerman writes with these collage points and they serve as really great examples of what I should do as I'm introducing concepts of mythology, AKA what other people say, what the trickster who is positive, what all of these things I want to introduce I just can't have without my story. It's going to be interspersing things but also describing use Rich details about spaces places, movie scenes, the things I really love. To bring the joy of even a really well filmed movie as I describe what makes that seem so well done, like the Punch-Drunk Love bathroom scene and how simply amazing it is with how sound and a still camera as if eavesdropping on a character who is simply lost it.