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Media Roll Call
Dec. 13th, 2012 10:00 pm50) The Hard Facts of the Grimms' Fairy Tales by Maria Tatar - Somewhat dated feeling in some sections, Maria Tatar remains one of my top writers when it comes to analyzing Grimm. Which makes it horrible that I am currently blanking on any particular points in this book. D'oh.
51) Batman Unauthorized ed by Dennis O'Neil - A really interesting set of essays put out by the Smart Pop series (I have their Supernatural and Firefly books of essays, too) with the usual mix of really interesting points of view that left you wanting more/longer essays and ones that are just fine as they are. By and large, though, the interesting ones win out here and there's something neat in how they got one of the classic Batman writers to be the editor. It's also interesting in that this book came out after Batman Begins but before The Dark Knight and so a number of the essays really touch on the Nolan mythos - both on positive and negative scales. I think my favorites were the essays on Ra's Al Ghul (father figure as terrorist), using Arkham Asylum as the real antagonist and a character in its own right, and about how each generation gets the Batman we deserve. The only one that struck me as totally unnecessary and puerile was the one about how the various interpretations of Batman (campy Adam West, vague Michael Keaton, and methodical Christian Bale) can be derived from The Talk delivered by Alfred... Really? We're wasting ink on that? Sheesh.
ONE MORE BOOK AND I HIT 52
I should probably work on my Yuletide because, um... 7 days.
51) Batman Unauthorized ed by Dennis O'Neil - A really interesting set of essays put out by the Smart Pop series (I have their Supernatural and Firefly books of essays, too) with the usual mix of really interesting points of view that left you wanting more/longer essays and ones that are just fine as they are. By and large, though, the interesting ones win out here and there's something neat in how they got one of the classic Batman writers to be the editor. It's also interesting in that this book came out after Batman Begins but before The Dark Knight and so a number of the essays really touch on the Nolan mythos - both on positive and negative scales. I think my favorites were the essays on Ra's Al Ghul (father figure as terrorist), using Arkham Asylum as the real antagonist and a character in its own right, and about how each generation gets the Batman we deserve. The only one that struck me as totally unnecessary and puerile was the one about how the various interpretations of Batman (campy Adam West, vague Michael Keaton, and methodical Christian Bale) can be derived from The Talk delivered by Alfred... Really? We're wasting ink on that? Sheesh.
ONE MORE BOOK AND I HIT 52
I should probably work on my Yuletide because, um... 7 days.
