Central and East European
Society for Phenomenology

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The Batman trilogy

an ethics of evil, the law, and the rise of Trump's fascism in the USA

pp. 117-145

Abstract

A schizoanalysis of the Batman Trilogy is ventured here. I explore an ethics of evil in relation to the Law and the rise of Trump's America First policies. There is a schizophrenic struggle, a conflict between Gothic fear and heroic justice, a thread that I follow through these three films. My intention in this venture is to show how the schizo-paranoid extremes play off of one another as desire and interests are manifested into actions through Batman and his adversaries.

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Jagodzinski Jan (2019) Schizoanalytic ventures at the end of the world: film, video, art, and pedagogical challenges. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.

Pages: 117-145

DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-12367-3_7

Full citation:

(2019) The Batman trilogy: an ethics of evil, the law, and the rise of Trump's fascism in the USA, In: Schizoanalytic ventures at the end of the world, Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan, 117–145.