'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
Prologue
Chapter 1 The Nolan Function: Authorship
Chapter 2 The Batman Matrix: Adaptation
Chapter 3 Dark Knight Lockdown: Realism and Repression
Chapter 4 Carnival on Infinite Earths: Continuity and Crisis
Chapter 5 The Never-Ending War: Deconstruction and the Dark Knight
Epilogue: Time and the Batman
Bibliography
Index