Breaking Down Joker : Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy (Paperback)

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