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

Oleh:

Thomas, Calvin

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Men and Masculinities vol. 2 no. 1 (Jul. 1999), page 26-46.
Topik: Tim Burton; Batman; masculinity; abjection; mass culture; photography; anxiety; psychoanalysis
Fulltext: 26MMS21.pdf (73.18KB)

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Because it deals with a male “superhero,” Tim Burton’s 1989 film Batman inevitably thematizes certain issues concerning masculinity. Specifically, Burton’s film foregrounds an anxious relation among “armored” masculine subjectivity, the male body, and the mechanisms of photographic and cinematic representation. The close reading of Batman presented here argues that the film articulates a specifically masculinist anxiety about the very medium of cinema, a constitutive unease about a mass cultural “technology of abjection” that both threatens and enforces the boundaries of normative, heterosexual masculinity. By thematizing its own material engulfment in the “feminizing” mass culture it attempts to transcend, Batman complicates the very terms of masculinity on which it insists.

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