Breaking DownJoker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy; Section I: Divided Space; 1. All the World's a Stage: Reading Space(s) in Todd Phillips'Joker; 2.Jokerand 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. LookingatandwithImages: Crowds inJoker, Joker in the Crowd; 7.

Resisting Tyranny with Laughter:Jokerand 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 ofJoker; 11. The Perfect Crime? Anthropology and Liminality inJoker; 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 inJoker; 13.A Monster We(Re)Make: Family Violence and Monstrous Masculinity inJoker; 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.