Hunting the Dark Knight

Will Brooker is the leading academic expert on the Dark Knight, and author of the cultural history of Batman, Batman Unmasked. His other books include Using the Force and Alice's Adventures. He edited the Audience Studies Reader and The Blade Runner Experience, and wrote the BFI Film Classics volume on Star Wars. He is currently Director of Research in Film and Television at Kingston University, London, and editor of Cinema Journal.

'A fascinating and incredibly detailed analysis of comic fiction's most powerful and successful hero.' - Pat Mills, author of Batman: The Book of Shadows 'Through the prism of poststructuralism, Will Brooker casts dazzling new light on Batman as myth, brand, and canon. Hunting the Dark Knight is, quite simply, a brilliant study of the Batman and contemporary processes of rebooting, franchising and shaping a cultural icon.' - Matt Hills, author of Triumph of a Time Lord

• PrologueChapter 1 The Nolan Function: AuthorshipChapter 2 The Batman Matrix: AdaptationChapter 3 Dark Knight Lockdown: Realism and RepressionChapter 4 Carnival on Infinite Earths: Continuity and CrisisChapter 5 The Never-Ending War: Deconstruction and the Dark KnightEpilogue: Time and the BatmanBibliographyIndex