Essays about: "the Joker"

Found 4 essays containing the words the Joker.

  1. 1. Pre-Existing Film Music Re:sourced : Technical Aspects and Narratological Implications of Audible Diegetic Transitions in Joker and Other Films

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för musikvetenskap

    Author : Martin Danstål Skiöld; [2023]
    Keywords : film music; technical aspects; narratological implications; audible diegetic transitions; transaural displacements; diegetic; non-diegetic; intra-diegetic; meta-diegetic; supra-diegetic; trans-diegetic; sound advance; bridge; lag; story; discourse; instant; gradual; emotive; grounding; narrow; wide; Joker; Baby Driver; Coda; Guardians of the Galaxy; Star Wars;

    Abstract : This thesis concerns itself with a phenomenon found in film music that can be described as audible diegetic transitions. In short, an audible diegetic transition occurs when film music shifts from one implied musical placement to another by changing its pre­sented sound quality. READ MORE

  3. 2. The Joker Returns: A new perspective on the violent Clown Prince of Crime

    University essay from Malmö universitet/Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS)

    Author : Panagiota Efthymiadou; Panagiota Koukouvinou; [2020]
    Keywords : Joker; Arthur Fleck; killer clown; media ecology; superhero genre; supervillain; CGI; advanced technology; content analysis; violence;

    Abstract : The new “Joker” movie, directed by Todd Phillips, was released in 2019 and brought a range of fervent and controversial discussion both in critics and audiences. Nevertheless, the “Joker” persona is tightly associated with comics and the superhero movie genre, and usually depicted in a particular way. READ MORE

  4. 3. Two Jokers in the Pack? A Comparative Analysis of Iago in William Shakespeare’s Othello and the Joker in Christopher Nolan’s The Dark Knight in Relation to W.H. Auden’s ‘The Joker in the Pack’

    University essay from Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för språk och litteraturer

    Author : Katarina Isaksson; [2014-02-07]
    Keywords : engelska; Iago; the Joker; William Shakespeare; Christopher Nolan; Othello; The Dark Knight; W.H. Auden; The Joker in the Pack; psychopathy; narratology;

    Abstract : What would happen if we viewed the Joker of Christopher Nolan’s 2008 motion picture The Dark Knight as a modern incarnation of Iago, the villain of William Shakespeare’s Othello? Additionally, how well does Auden’s argument about Iago as a practical joker (‘The Joker in the Pack’) explain them both? The analysis of this essay is performed by comparing similarities and differences found with the two villains and relating them to W. H. READ MORE

  5. 4. New Times, New Heroes : Ambiguity, Socio-Political Issues and Post Modernism in Frank Miller's Graphic Novel The Dark Knight Returns

    University essay from Estetisk-filosofiska fakulteten

    Author : Jan Axelsson; [2013]
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    Abstract : Frank Miller’s The Dark Knight Returns is one of the first graphic novels to redraw the map for this kind of literature but perhaps first and foremost for the characteristics of superheroes and villains. It is a story which we have read before in the sense that Batman, the eternal crime fighter, chases his arch enemies Two Face and the Joker, but it is also a new story in which we meet an ambiguous and complex superhero. READ MORE