Will Brooker
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Will Brooker's PhD, a cultural history of the Dark Knight from 1939-1999, was published in 2000 as Batman Unmasked, earning him the title 'Dr Batman'.

His other works include Using the Force (on Star Wars fandom), Alice's Adventures: Lewis Carroll in Popular Culture, The Blade Runner Experience, the BFI Film Classics volume on Star Wars and various other books and articles.

He was regular film and television reviewer for the Times Higher Education magazine during 2011 and 2012, and is the first British editor of the Cinema Journal, publication of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies.

His next book is 'Hunting the Dark Knight: 21st Century Batman', for I. B. Tauris.

Blog Entries by Will Brooker

Clothes and the Batman: Analysing the Outfits in Dark Knight Rises

(0) Comments | Posted 11 May 2012 | (13:18)

A few weeks ago, I got catty about Anne Hathaway's outfit for The Dark Knight Rises. But outfits are important in the Batman universe. When the police catch Joker, they discover his 'clothing is custom, no labels.' Joker's duds perfectly suit his role as the 'Anonymous' of Gotham...

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Occupy Gotham: Analysing the Dark Knight Rises Viral Campaign

(1) Comments | Posted 8 May 2012 | (00:00)

Mic check

MIC CHECK


Two new languages


TWO NEW LANGUAGES

Two new languages rose to prominence in the early 2010s. The first was the communal, crowd-speech of the Occupy movement, where a speaker had his or her words amplified by a human microphone. The second was...

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Why Fans of The Dark Knight Should Embrace Batman: The Musical

(1) Comments | Posted 24 April 2012 | (00:00)

I'm a Batman fan. I love Batman. Not in that way. Well, maybe in that way. It's hard to tell, isn't it? There are so many different Batmen.

There's the grim, gothic figure of the 1939 comic books, the patriotic war hero of the early 1940s film serials, the 1960s...

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Anne Hathaway's New Catwoman Outfit - First Images

(2) Comments | Posted 16 April 2012 | (17:51)

Nobody admits to liking Joel Schumacher's Batman & Robin. Even George Clooney admitted the movie stank, and he played Batman in it. People didn't like the nipples on the costumes, the codpieces, the camp, the pantomime performances.

Christopher Nolan certainly didn't like it. In the published screenplay for Batman Begins,...

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