Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy

ISBN-13: 9780367774240 / Angielski / Twarda / 2021 / 218 str.

Sean Redmond

Opis

Breaking Down Joker offers a compelling, multi-disciplinary examination of a landmark film and media event that was simultaneously both celebrated and breaks down the movie to explore its aesthetic and ideological representations within the social and cultural context in which it was released.

Spis treści

Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy;  Section I: Divided Space;  1. All the World’s a Stage: Reading Space(s) in Todd Phillips’ Joker;  2. Joker and Gotham City: Identity Correspondence. The Political Value in the Evocation of New York City in the 1970s and the Imaginary of the New Hollywood Thriller;  3. Joker: Madly Walking and Dancing Through Space;  4. New York is Dead: The Joker Steps and Urban Melancholia;  Section II: Mediated Uprisings;  5. Send in the Clowns: Joker, Vigilante films and Populist Revolt;  6. Looking at and with Images: Crowds in Joker, Joker in the Crowd;  7. Resisting Tyranny with Laughter: Joker and the Arab Revolutions;  8. Joker: Toxic Masculinity, the Instigation of (Political) Violence and the Protection of Minors in Greece;  Section III: Violating Genre;  9. ‘Put on a Happy Face’: The Neoliberal Horrors of Joker/s;  10. Performance Crime, Trigger Warnings, and the Violence of Joker;  11. The Perfect Crime? Anthropology and Liminality in Joker;  Section IV: Breaking the Ideal Man;  12. "What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him?" - Madness and Power in Joker;  13. A Monster We (Re) Make: Family Violence and Monstrous Masculinity in Joker;  14. The Joker and Man in the Mirror: Through Chaos to True Identity;  15. Lives of Precarity in the Age of Neoliberalism: The Tales Untold

O autorze

Sean Redmond is Professor of Screen and Design at Deakin University, Australia. He is the author of 15 books and the founding editor of Celebrity Studies, short-listed for the best new academic journal in 2011.