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

Tue Jan 04 18:55:33 GMT 2022






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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