Breaking Down Joker

Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-0-367-77425-7
Verlag: Routledge

Buch, Englisch, 232 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 363 g

Reihe: Routledge Advances in Film Studies

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

An international team of authors explore Joker’s sightlines and subtexts, the affective relationships, corrosive ideologies, and damning, if ambivalent, messages of this film. The chapters address such themes as white masculinity, identity and perversion, social class and mobility, urban loneliness, movement and music, and questions of reception and activism.

With contributions from scholars from screen studies, theatre and performance studies, psychology and psychoanalysis, geography, cultural studies, and sociology, this fully interdisciplinary collection offers a uniquely multiple operational cross-examination of this pivotal film text and will be of great importance to scholars, students, and researchers in these areas.

Zielgruppe

Postgraduate and Undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Redmond, Sean

Fachgebiete

• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Populärkultur
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Kognitionspsychologie Emotion, Motivation, Handlung
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologische Disziplinen Sexualpsychologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Mediensoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Ethik, Moralphilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Sozialphilosophie, Politische Philosophie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgeschichte
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Freizeitsoziologie, Konsumsoziologie, Alltagssoziologie, Populärkultur
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophie des Geistes, Neurophilosophie
• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Allgemeine Psychologie Sozialpsychologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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.