The Batman: same old hypermasculine heroes, sexualised women and disfigured baddies

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Batman and the body
Quinn, J., 29 Oct 2025, The Routledge Companion to Superhero Studies. Piatti-Farnell, L. & Wilson, C. (eds.). Routledge Taylor & Francis Group, (Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions).
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Send in the clowns: twisted masculinity, supergendering and the aesthetics of populism in Todd Phillips’ JOKER (2019)
Quinn, J., 30 Apr 2021, The Culture and Politics of Populist Masculinities. Hakola, O., Salminen, J., Turpeinen, J. & Winberg, O. (eds.). Washington DC: Lexington Books
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