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New Evil - The Joker in "The Dark Knight" as a Prototype of the Post-September 11-Villain

Inglese · Tascabile

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Thesis (M.A.) from the year 2009 in the subject Film Science, grade: 1,3, University of Potsdam (Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik), language: English, abstract: My thesis "New Evil. The Joker in The Dark Knight as a Post-September 11-Villain" establishes a picture of Gotham City that is more "realistic" than in previous Batman films. The population of this city is realised in three parts: the mob consists of African Americans and other "Ethnic"-Americans, the JetSet is almost completely light-skinned. In between one finds Gothams police, mixed Ethnic/black and white, but also known to be corrupt. Indeed, the film follows subtle anti-state-sentiments in making the three highest officers in Gotham "Ethnic"-Americans: Garcia, Loeb and Surrillo. Only a disfunctional state makes the nightly operations of a vigilante like Batman - a person, who decides for himself what is good and what is bad - necessary.
The predecessors of the Joker are the great villains of film- and culture history, starting with Shakespeares Iago up to slashers like Freddy Krueger. The Joker clearly does not fit into the three-part pattern in the first part of my paper. His malice is sourced by four different strands:
references to Satan
references to femininity
references to disability
and references to a terrorism clearly related to the one of Al-Qaeda and its supporter groups. In establishing a villain along these lines, the producers of the film address a mainstream which is in their view reactionary, latently racist and anti-emancipatory. Though the film makes exceptional statements (eg. Morgan Freeman), evil in their eyes is either black, disabled or feminin. In its displayed reaction to the new threat of the Joker - Batman sets up a surveillance systems that monitors all citizens of Gotham - the film can be interpreted as a defense of the Bush policies after 9/11.

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Autori Lars Dittmer
Editore Grin Verlag
 
Lingue Inglese
Formato Tascabile
Pubblicazione 13.10.2009
 
EAN 9783640442317
ISBN 978-3-640-44231-7
Pagine 104
Dimensioni 148 mm x 7 mm x 7 mm
Peso 163 g
Serie Akademische Schriftenreihe
Akademische Schriftenreihe, Bd. V135368
Akademische Schriftenreihe
Akademische Schriftenreihe Bd. V135368
Categorie Saggistica > Musica, film, teatro > Cinematografia: tematiche generali, opere di consultazione
Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto

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