Reddit reviews The Caped Crusade: Batman and the Rise of Nerd Culture
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SIMON SCHUSTER
The key line:
"Ultimately, however, it devotes so much of its energy into not being about a comic book villain that it neglects being about ... much of anything, really."
Comic book movies that try too hard to avoid their source material rarely end up being good.
The author of that review also literally wrote the book on Batman:
https://www.amazon.com/Caped-Crusade-Batman-Rise-Culture/dp/1476756732
I don't have any academic fandom stuff sadly. This is one of the first times I've read about fandom being studied in an academic context. I think the closest I can reccomend is the book The Caped Crusade. The author uses Batman as a spring board to look at our fandom culture overall and it's fascinating.
I do know if you hang around enough, you do get interesting discussion on Twitter, Tumblr, and even Facebook sometimes.
The Caped Crusade is an awesome book about the history of batman and nerd culture in general. There's a lot of good stuff in there about how the Batman TV show fit into the larger history of the character, how it was misunderstood (mainly by batman fanboys), and it's repercussions.