The Batman Filmography: Live-action Features, 1943–1997

Rating:
Summary: Interesting book, but repetitive
Review: The idea for this book is a good one--Batman is such an iconic character, and has been interpreted in very diverse ways on film. The author is quite knowledgable on Batman history, and is quite opinionated on his thoughts regarding the various film makers and their contributions to Batman (good or bad). I only had two problems with the book:

1. The introduction is lengthy and quite good--the only problem is that most of it is repeated in the chapters on the various films. That's a lot of padding for a $45 book.

2. There are VERY complete summaries of each of the films--the author should have assumed that anyone willing to pay $45 for this book would have enough familiarity with the storylines of each, and would rather have more pages devoted to critical essay on them. The book would have been better served by expanding the topics to include the animated films.

In short, I commend the author for taking the initiative to write and publish a book like this--I hope if he publishes a future revised edition to include the new movie he takes some of these ideas into account.