The Joker by Robert Moses Peaslee

The Joker by Robert Moses Peaslee

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.

Robert Moses Peaslee, Lubbock, Texas, is associate professor of journalism and electronic media in the College of Media and Communication at Texas Tech University. His work has been published in several journals, and he is the coeditor, with Robert G. Weiner, of Web-Spinning Heroics: Critical Essays on the History and Meaning of Spider-Man.|Robert G. Weiner, Lubbock, Texas, is humanities librarian at Texas Tech University where he serves as liaison to the College of Visual and Performing Arts and Film Studies. He is the editor and coeditor of a number of books on popular culture topics, and his work has appeared in numerous journals and collections.

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ISBN 13	9781496807816
ISBN 10	1496807812
Titre	The Joker
Auteur	Robert Moses Peaslee
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Type de reliure	Paperback
Éditeur	University Press of Mississippi
Année de publication	2016-02-29
Nombre de pages	294
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