1.0 link 111426 <![CDATA[Batman (1943): Rounding Up the Shifty-Eyed Japs]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/erik-lundegaard/the-ethnic-stereotypes-of_b_111426.html Note: This is the first of seven reviews of the Batman serials and movies that prefigure the current Christopher Nolan/Christian Bale cycle. For many, it'll be too much information. For others, it won't be enough. Apologies all around.

The chief problem with the 15-episode serial, Batman (1943), the second live-action version of a modern superhero, isn't the low-budget effects (Columbia serials were notoriously cheap), nor its racism (the chief villain is a Japanese spy during WWII), but the form itself,...

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