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The Joker : A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime /

"Along with Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman, the Joker stands out as one of the most recognizable comics characters in popular culture. While there has been a great deal of scholarly attention on superheroes, very little has been done to understand supervillains. This is the first academic wor...

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Otros Autores: Weiner, Robert G., 1966- (Editor ), Peaslee, Robert Moses, 1973- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2015]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a Cover -- THE JOKER -- Title -- Copyright -- CONTENTS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- INTRODUCTION -- I. THE CHANGEABLE TRICKSTER -- SHIFTING MAKEUPS: The Joker as Performance Style from Romero to Ledger -- DOES THE JOKER HAVE SIX-INCH TEETH? -- LADY HAHA: Performativity, Super-sanity, and the Mutability of Identity -- EPISODES OF MADNESS: Representations of the Joker in Television and Animation -- II. THE JOKER AND THE POLITICAL -- THE OBAMA-JOKER: Assembling a Populist Monster 
505 0 |a ""KISS WITH A FIST: The Gendered Power Struggle of the Joker and Harley Quinn """"MORE THAN THE HOOD WAS RED: The Joker as Marxist ""; ""III. THE DIGITAL JOKER ""; ""NEVER GIVE â€?EM WHAT THEY EXPECT: The Joker Ethos as the Zeitgeist of Contemporary Digital Subcultural Transgression ""; ""PLAYING (WITH) THE VILLAIN: Critical Play and the Joker-as-Guide in Batman: Arkham Asylum ""; ""â€oeWHY SO SERIOUS?â€?: Warner Bros.â€? Use of the Joker in Marketing The Dark Knight ""; ""IV. JOKER THEORY ""; ""RICTUS GRINS AND GLASGOW SMILES: The Joker as Satirical Discourse "" 
505 0 |a ""THE JOKER, CLOWN PRINCE OF NOBILITY: The â€oeMasterâ€? Criminal, Nietzsche, and the Rise of the Superman """"THE JOKER PLAYS THE KING: Archetypes of the Underworld in Grant Morrison and Dave McKeanâ€?s Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth ""; ""MAKING SENSE SQUARED: Iteration and Synthesis in Grant Morrisonâ€?s Joker ""; ""â€oeYOU COMPLETE MEâ€?: The Joker as Symptom ""; ""AFTERWORD ""; ""CONTRIBUTORS ""; ""INDEX "" 
520 |a "Along with Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman, the Joker stands out as one of the most recognizable comics characters in popular culture. While there has been a great deal of scholarly attention on superheroes, very little has been done to understand supervillains. This is the first academic work to provide a comprehensive study of this villain, illustrating why the Joker appears so relevant to audiences today. Batman's foe has cropped up in thousands of comics, numerous animated series, and three major blockbuster feature films since 1966. Actually, the Joker debuted in DC comics Batman 1 (1940) as the typical gangster, but the character evolved steadily into one of the most ominous in the history of sequential art. Batman and the Joker almost seemed to define each other as opposites, hero and nemesis, in a kind of psychological duality. Scholars from a wide array of disciplines look at the Joker through the lens of feature films, video games, comics, politics, magic and mysticism, psychology, animation, television, performance studies, and philosophy. As the first volume that examines the Joker as complex cultural and cross-media phenomenon, this collection adds to our understanding of the role comic book and cinematic villains play in the world and the ways various media affect their interpretation. Connecting the Clown Prince of Crime to bodies of thought as divergent as Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, contributors demonstrate the frightening ways in which we get the monsters we need"--  |c Provided by publisher 
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