"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...

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Other Authors:	Redmond, Sean 1967- (Editor)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	London ; New York Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group 2022
Series:	Routledge advances in film studies
Subjects:	Joker > Fiktive Gestalt Joker (Motion picture) Joker / (Fictitious character) Aufsatzsammlung
Summary:	"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"--
Physical Description:	xii, 217 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9780367774240 9780367774257