2021
DOI: 10.32873/uno.dc.jrf.25.1.003
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“He Who Laughs Last!” Terrorists, Nihilists, and Jokers

Abstract: Since his debut in 1940, the Joker, famed adversary of the Batman, continues to permeate the American cultural mediascape not merely as an object of consumption but as an ongoing production of popular imagination. Joker mythmakers post-1986 have reimagined the character not as superhuman but as “depressingly ordinary,” inspiring audiences both to empathize with his existential plight and to fear his terroristic violence as an increasingly compelling model of reactionary resistance to institutionality. This art… Show more

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