Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy

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Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Breaking down Joker: Violence, loneliness, tragedy
Section I Divided space
	1 All the world’s a stage: reading space(s) in Todd Phillips’ Joker
	2 Joker and Gotham City: identity correspondence. The political value in the evocation of New York City in the 1970s and the imaginary of the new Hollywood thriller
	3 Joker: Madly walking and dancing through space
	4 New York is dead: the Joker steps and urban melancholia
Section II Mediated uprisings
	5 Send in the clowns: Joker, vigilante films, and populist revolt
	6 Looking at and with images: crowds in Joker, Joker in the crowd
	7 Resisting tyranny with laughter: Joker and the Arab revolutions
	8 Joker: toxic masculinity, the instigation of (political) violence, and the protection of minors in Greece
Section III Violating genre
	9 ‘Put on a happy face’: the neoliberal horrors of Joker/s
	10 Performance crime, trigger warnings, and the violence of Joker
	11 The perfect crime? Anthropology and liminality in Joker
Section IV Breaking the ideal man
	12 “What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him?” – Madness and power in Joker
	13 A Monster We (Re) Make: family violence and monstrous masculinity in Joker
	14 The Joker and man in the mirror: through chaos to true identity
	15 Lives of precarity in the age of neoliberalism: the tales untold
Index