The Pathology of Joker’s Dance: The Origins of Arthur Fleck’s Body Aesthetics in Todd Phillips’s 2019 Joker Film
2020; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 43; Issue: 3 Linguagem: Inglês
10.1080/01472526.2020.1816740
ISSN1532-4257
Autores Tópico(s)Cinema and Media Studies
ResumoTodd Phillips's 2019 movie Joker reconfigures and actualizes body aesthetics and performance traditions—eccentric movements and so-called epileptic dancing—celebrated around 1900 on the popular stage and in early film. This body language, consisting of bizarre contortions, dislocations, jerking, and gesticulating, is linked to medical discourses about the nervous system, and can be traced in popular theater throughout the twentieth century. This paper examines how it emerges in Arthur Fleck, aka the Joker.
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