Batman: uma luz sobre o cavaleiro das trevas - mediações, midiatizações, transmidiatizações

Abstract

In media studies, the symbolic exchanges between production and reception allow to understand how the cultural industry works. Related to the character Batman, born in comic books in the 1930s, this research aims to follow the temporal flow in connection with the media universe, immersed in the imagery and symbolic repertoire of mass culture through the uniqueness of his trajectory. Discussing Batman's mediatic trajectory, it analyzes his condition of mediation through his adaptations to the television and cinematographic medium, identifying the narrative discourses in distinct historicalcultural contexts, focusing on mediatization and transmidiatization, relativizing the relation between author-work based on John B. Thompson's cultural studies, Jesús Martín-Barbero's mediations, Umberto Eco's narrativity, Joseph Campbell's and Christopher Vogler's hero journey concept, and studies on transmedia storytelling of Henry Jenkins and Carlos A. Solari.