Last Laughs: Batman, Masculinity, and the Technology of Abjection

Men and Masculinities

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 26-46

  Thomas, Calvin ^a  

^a GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

abjection; anxiety; Batman; masculinity; mass culture; photography; psychoanalysis; Tim Burton

Indexed keywords

EID: 84990370509     PISSN: 1097184X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1097184X99002001003     Document Type: Article

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