[Commlist] New Edited volume: Breaking Down Joker Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy

New Edited Volume

/Edited By Sean Redmond/

Edition1st Edition

First Published: 2021

eBook Published: 31 December 2021

Pub. Location: London

Imprint: Routledge

DOI: : _https://doi-org.ezphost.dur.ac.uk/10.4324/9781003171300 
<https://doi-org.ezphost.dur.ac.uk/10.4324/9781003171300>_

Pages: 232

eBook ISBN: 9781003171300

Subjects: Arts, Behavioral Sciences, Humanities, Politics & 
International Relations, Urban Studies


    ABSTRACT

/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, theater 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.



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