"audioBOOK The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
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A witty, intelligent cultural history from NPR book critic Glen Weldon explains Batman’ s rises and falls throughout the ages— and what his story tells us about ourselves.Since his creation, Batman has been many things: a two-fisted detective a planet-hopping gadabout a campy Pop-art sensation a pointy-eared master spy and a grim and gritty ninja of the urban night. For more than three quarters of a century, he has cycled from a figure of darkness to one of lightness and back again he’ s a bat-shaped Rorschach inkblot who takes on the various meanings our changing culture projects onto him. How we perceive Batman’ s character, whether he’ s delivering dire threats in a raspy Christian Bale growl or trading blithely homoerotic double-entendres with partner Robin on the comics page, speaks to who we are and how we wish to be seen by the world. It’ s this endlessly mutable quality that has made him so enduring. And it’ s Batman’ s fundamental
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