Description: Batman fans, popular culture enthusiasts, and media studies scholars will find within these pages insights and ironies to provoke endless conversations.
Brief description: Joe Sutliff Sanders is a specialist in children's media at the University of Cambridge. He is also the author of Disciplining Girls and A Literature of Questions.
Review Quotes:
I was tempted to trot out the dusty criticism of "my only complaint is that the book is TOO SHORT" but the sheer depth of the text stopped me from doing so. Yes, I read the book in one sitting but it repeatedly made me stop and think about some of the points it raised. Split into three parts, the book tackles the "Dark Deco" aesthetics of the show's universe, how the show views the wealthy, and (in my opinion) the toughest nut to crackHarley Quinn. Sutliff's book is the scholarly take on B: TAS that I didn't know I needed but am overjoyed to have discovered.
--E. A. Henson "Biff Bam Pop!"