Neon Knight Forever: The Legacy of Joel Schumachers Batman Duology

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Neon Knight Forever is a detailed study of one of the most misunderstood superhero series that dares to ask the most heretical question for all Bat-fans: what if Batman & Robin is actually a valuable achievement in big-budget superhero cinema The Batman franchise has remained one of the most lucrative and varied lines of superhero-based titles outside its original comic book, with adaptations from filmmakers such as Christopher Nolan, Tim Burton, and Zack Snyder. However, among the many facets of Batman, there is one which remains on the margins of Bat-history, being treated as the most obscure or misconceived: the Batman duology directed by Joel Schumacher between 1995 and 1997, a creation which is seen by many fans as the "wrong" approach to the Batman mythos. Neon Knight Forever accounts for the initial rejection of Schumacher's version and explores modern attempts to rehabilitate Schumacher's vision of the infamous Neon Knight. Through discussing the formal foundations underlying both Batman Forever and Batman & Robin and featuring claims from the Schumacher online fandom, Zaglewski embraces the adaptation as a valuable addition to the Batman universe.

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Audiences and critics have often dismissed the Schumacher Batman films as inferior. In Neon Knight Forever, Zaglewski takes a much-needed scholarly approach to the films and their legacy and makes a convincing case for reexamining our perspective. * Erica McCrystal, Assistant Professor of Education and English, Centenary University, US *

Author Bio

Tomasz Zaglewski is Professor at the Institute of Cultural Studies, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poland, and author of numerous comic-related academic papers published in the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and International Journal of Comic Art and ImageText: Interdisciplinary Comics Studies. He is the author of Superculture: The Genesis of the Superhero Phenomenon (2021) and Superheroes' Cinematic Universe: Analyzing a Modern Comic Book Film (2019).