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.
| ISBN: | 9780367774257 |
| Publication date: | 25th September 2023 |
| Author: | Sean Redmond |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 218 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Advances in Film Studies |
| Genres: |
Film history, theory or criticism Media studies Gender studies, gender groups |
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.
Breaking Down Joker features in the following genres: Media studies, Popular culture, Political campaigning and advertising, Psychotherapy, Urban communities, Behaviourism, Behavioural theory, Performance art, Film history, theory or criticism, Film: styles and genres, Theatre studies, Social, group or collective psychology, Interdisciplinary studies, Philosophy
Breaking Down Joker is available in Paperback, Hardback
Breaking Down Joker was written by Sean Redmond and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
Breaking Down Joker has 218 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Advances in Film Studies series
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