Published: 2025-06-30

The Tragic Case of Inbetweenness: A review of the book: Tomasz Żaglewski. Neon Knight Forever: The Legacy of Joel Schumacher’s Batman Duology (London–New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), 143 pp.

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Section: reviews and discussions
https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.18060

Abstract

Tomasz Żaglewski’s book is the first monograph written by a Polish academic on the film adaptations of the Batman comics. The book is divided into three parts. The first part deals with the 1990s reception of the films Batman Forever (1995) and Batman & Robin (1997) directed by Joel Schumacher. In this chapter, Żaglewski lays the foundations for his examination of the figure of the Neon Knight in Schumacher’s films. In the second chapter, he analyses the director’s concept of the “living comic,” also sometimes presented as the “living animated film,” which was constructed as an alternative to Tim Burton’s dark aesthetic of his two previous movies from 1989 and 1992 (Batman and Batman Returns). The third part of his monograph deals with the categories of cultural memory, the role of nostalgia in popular culture and the key role of online communities in digital comics culture.

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Konefał, S. J. (2025). The Tragic Case of Inbetweenness: A review of the book: Tomasz Żaglewski. Neon Knight Forever: The Legacy of Joel Schumacher’s Batman Duology (London–New York: Bloomsbury Academic, 2024), 143 pp. Er(r)go. Theory - Literature - Culture, (50), 217–225. https://doi.org/10.31261/errgo.18060

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No. 50 (2025)
Published: 2025-07-24


ISSN: 1508-6305
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