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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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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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
- ""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 ""
- ""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 ""