Analysing <i>Joker</i>: an attempt to establish diagnosis for a film icon

Skryabin, Valentin Yurievich

doi:10.1192/bjb.2020.146

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“…This is different from most films that show the conflict through dialogue (Jati Kusuma, 2019). Another uniqueness is the rarity of films without dialogue or minimal dialogue produced today (Skryabin, 2021).…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 79%

Director creative process in pre-production stage of Subuh (Miracle at Dawn) Film

Bariq,

Muttaqien

2023

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The film Subuh (Miracle at Dawn) by Noise Films, which is packaged with a minimal dialogue concept, won awards nationally and internationally. This cannot be separated from how a director carries out his creative process, especially during pre-production. The purpose of this research is to find out how the director's creative process was in the pre-production stage of the film Subuh (Miracle at Dawn). The research method is a qualitative descriptive approach with data collection techniques through observation, interviews, and documentation. The research results show that directors apply nine creative stages in the pre-production stage, according to Ed Gaskell, namely watching your plot, writing the screenplays, genre theme and drama, drawing on ideas, location, setting scene, stars and actors, finding the crew, and research production. This research provides a deeper understanding of the director's role in the creative process in the film industry.

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confidence: 79%

Director creative process in pre-production stage of Subuh (Miracle at Dawn) Film

Bariq,

Muttaqien

2023

Sylection.

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“…Over more, Arthur in the film's various mental abnormalities in the performance, but also a real show of brain damage, and suffering from mental disorders of patients in society how difficult the situation. He shows the tendency of narcissistic personality disorder, and the symptoms of pseudobulbar affect due to traumatic brain injury [11]. The film uses Arthur's childhood trauma and his suffering and inner perseverance in spite of his mental disorder as a means to gain audience support and call for more care and understanding for real-life patients.…”

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The Research on the Audio-visual Language and Social Profiling in Film Joker

Zhang¹

2023

BCPEP

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Joker is a film adaptation of the DC Comics super-villain The Joker, which focuses on the Joker's origin story. The film externalizes the spiritual world of the protagonist Arthur, showing the evils and madness of Gotham City through his perspective, and in the process, Arthur is gradually destroyed and begins his criminal career. The film is a film that brings to life the spiritual world of man through audio-visualization and is full of criticism and reflection on the morality of society. Taking the film Joker as the object of study, this paper attempts to investigate the audiovisual language and social impact in Joker, and mainly by describing and examines the typical symbolic representations and camera use in the film, it analyzes how the film presents the mental world of the character, and on this basis, it explores the film's feedback on the real world. According to the research results, the symbolic representation in scene of the film include colour, music and dance, composition of Shooting. The reflection and revelation of the real society based on the depiction of extreme society in the film include"Joker is not as anti-social and inflammatory as the media make them out to be", "madness and indulgence under absolute freedom" and "film is above reality but not reality".

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“…With regards to academic explorations of the Joker narrative, the myth has received scholarly attention which either focuses on discursive aspects of the trickster myth in Tim Burton's Batman (Lewis 1997;Harris 1997), characteristics of Heath Ledger's Joker (Brodesser-Akner 2008;Bellinger 2009), The Dark Knight's (Nolan 2008) representation of mental illness as dangerous (Camp et al 2010), and the villain's rivalry with Batman as explored through its representation of class dynamics (Tyree 2009;Nichols 2011;Mizsei-Ward 2012;Silvers 2016). Since the release of the 2019 Joker film, increased academic attention has been awarded to the study of the Joker text/myth and its effects, as seen in analyses of the polemical aspect of news media discourse on the film (Mathijs 2021), the story's recontextualization of hegemony (Brown 2021), the film's sound design (Kerins 2021), the deformist masculinity of Joaquin Phoenix's Joker (Kavka 2021), the film's effects on audience negative perception of mental illness as dangerous (Durham and Wilkinson 2020;Hulatt 2020), critical explorations of the 2019 Joker's politics (Žižek 2019), and the story's representation of gender violence and mental illness as violent (Redmond 2021;Skryabin 2021).…”

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confidence: 99%

The Joker Myth as Mediated Stereotype in International Media Discourse

Grapă

2022

Zeszyty Prasoznawcze

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This study is a critical mixed-methods investigation of the Joker’s ubiquity within international media discourse. The research comparatively examines the myth’s presence within The Guardian and The New York Times’ news reporting (1999–2020), and determines intermedia agenda-setting processes. Using a corpus linguistics approach, the paper also analyses news media’s deployment of the Joker as a figure of speech, with the purpose of identifying prominent news values. The results indicate a high prevalence of consonance, eliteness, proximity, negativity, and superlativeness. Moreover, the study investigates the role that user-generated media plays in perpetuating or countering dominant hegemonies, by semiotically analysing internet memes that use the myth within the r/meme subreddit community. Overall, the study finds that the Joker is a popular resource for the mediated construction of a derogatory stereotype, associated with sexist, racist and ableist myths, often in connection to political elites (Donald Trump, Boris Johnson, Barack Obama), and serves as a tool for mockery, shame, and dramatization of events.

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Analysing Joker: an attempt to establish diagnosis for a film icon

Cited by 10 publications

References 14 publications

Director creative process in pre-production stage of Subuh (Miracle at Dawn) Film

Director creative process in pre-production stage of Subuh (Miracle at Dawn) Film

The Research on the Audio-visual Language and Social Profiling in Film Joker

The Joker Myth as Mediated Stereotype in International Media Discourse

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