In the DC Comics Universe, Harley Quinn and the Joker have been an iconic and problematic canonical couple, represented as everything from enviable “mad” lovers to abusive relationship ...
Tópico(s): Sexuality, Behavior, and Technology
2019 - SAGE Publishing | Television & New Media
... illness, Pozios noted. An example would be the Joker from DC Comics' Batman series, for instance. Through related media, comic ...
Tópico(s): COVID-19 and Mental Health
2016 - American Psychiatric Association Publishing | Psychiatric News
Creative responses to the DC Comics character Harley Quinn, sometime girlfriend and assistant to the Joker and established favorite among female fans, are considered. By means of examples from an array of media (fan fiction, short ...
Tópico(s): Media, Gender, and Advertising
2011 - Organization for Transformative Works | Transformative Works and Cultures
... King’s It and Frank Quitely’s unnerving DC Joker. Laurence Grove presents five "quick-fire sideshows" that discuss how and why clowns and comics are interconnected icons of current culture. Both are ...
Tópico(s): Narrative Theory and Analysis
2021 - Penn State University Press | Pacific Coast Philology
Dan Santos, Anna‐Sophie Jürgens,
... become an important and popular character in the DC Universe, especially for representations of women scientists in comics and the associated cinematic and TV adaptations. Understandably, much of the analysis of this character has tended to focus on her relationship with the Joker and the gender-based dimensions of this dynamic. ...
Tópico(s): Film in Education and Therapy
2023 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics
... antihero Harley Quinn was first introduced as the Joker's "henchwench" in Batman: The Animated Series (1992). The character soon developed a dedicated fan base, including enthusiasts who did not conform to traditional definitions of comic book fans. Recognizing Harley Quinn's popularity, DC Comics subsequently incorporated the character into comic book ...
Tópico(s): Narrative Theory and Analysis
2021 - Organization for Transformative Works | Transformative Works and Cultures
... in love with Batman’s nemesis, the villainous Joker, and “devoted her life to making him happy and spreading his bloody brand of mayhem.”This controversy came on the heels of another public-relations misstep for DC Comics—refusing to allow its signature lesbian character, Batwoman, ...
Tópico(s): Film in Education and Therapy
2013 - American Psychiatric Association Publishing | Psychiatric News
Jeff Preston, Lindsay Rath-Paillé,
In May of 1939, DC Comics introduced their popular Batman series, but it was a year later when the iconic villain, the Joker, entered the story. What began as a lighthearted pulp comic has since evolved, with Batman’s enemies growing darker and ...
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2023 - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute | Societies
... in which she was originally cast in the DC Comics Batman: The Animated Series (1992) and Mad Love (1994). Depicted as an anti-hero in a dysfunctional relationship with The Joker, she is now transformed into a deviant and ...
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2019 - Intellect | Film Fashion & Consumption
... Catwoman" #0 Cover' (http://comicsalliance.com/artists-respond-dc-comics-back-breaking-catwoman-0-cover/); 'The Real Problem ...
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2014 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics
Anna‐Sophie Jürgens, Anastasiya Fiadotava, Crystal-Leigh Clitheroe,
Harley Quinn is not only DC's ever-yearning romantic Joker victim – a libidinous, self-centred coarse bumpkin in suspenders, who regularly gets thrashed without mercy – but also an eccentric clown and violent vaude-villain. We argue that the diversity of Harley Quinn's personality as portrayed by different writers and impersonated by cosplay fans is intrinsically connected to the complex and multi-dimensional humour that is associated with the character. Drawing on humour and clown theories, we unpack ...
Tópico(s): Narrative Theory and Analysis
2024 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics
... this day in Warner Bros/s adaptations of DC Comics properties--that successfully resists convergence as defined Jenkins, ... and in spring of 1940, Batman's own comic title debuted. Batman #1 featured short story entitled The Legend of Batman--Who He is and How He Came be! This two-page spread (which preceded first appearance of Joker in pages that would follow), finally divulged Batman' ...
Tópico(s): Digital Games and Media
2009 - | Cineaction!
... film's place in the official canon of DC Comics. Paradoxically, the process of circularity also contributes to ...
Tópico(s): Violence, Religion, and Philosophy
2019 - Association Française d'Etudes Américaines | Transatlantica
... Detective Comics (#469–#476) which were published by DC Comics between May 1977 and August 1978. The first ... Terry Austin. The entire run was reprinted by DC Comics in a ‘deluxe format’, five-issue, limited series ...
Tópico(s): Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
2014 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics
... Iger Studio. He continued drawing humor strips for DC Comics as well as two adventure features, the kid ... and a werewolf. The story was written by DC scripter Gardner Fox, who took over Batman-writing chores for Detective Comics nos. 29–34, perhaps because Finger had trouble ... stories. Even the word “flick” was prohibited because DC editors feared the letters might be merged together in the printed copy.In Detective Comics no. 38 (April 1940), Finger and Kane added ... from DC. In Kane’s original contract with DC, he had signed away ownership rights of the character in exchange for monetary compensation and a sole mandatory byline on all Batman comics and adaptations. In contrast, Bill Finger received limited ...
Tópico(s): Cinema History and Criticism
2020 - University of Chicago Press | Source Notes in the History of Art
... couple of main US publishers in that field: Dc Comics and Marvel. Focus, finally, is dedicated to ideological ...
Tópico(s): Film in Education and Therapy
2020 - University of Navarre | Communication & Society
... 2013–20) on ABC and the ever-expanding DC Comics Arrowverse on the CW to postmodern, experimental critical ...
Tópico(s): Shakespeare, Adaptation, and Literary Criticism
2020 - Duke University Press | American Literature
Anna‐Sophie Jürgens, David C. Tscharke, Jochen J. Brocks,
... of his adventures in the DC universe, the Joker has been associated with science, particularly (bio)chemistry ... microbiology. Exploring some recently published narrative examples of Joker science together with the insight provided by virology ... violent clown and his scientific extravaganzas. Psychopathic, mannerist Joker science, this paper shows, is intrinsically linked to ... of different historical, physical, medial and cultural settings. Joker science is not only about how chemistry and ... crimes' on science stages and in early film. Joker science 'jokerises': it leads to loss of motor ...
Tópico(s): Leadership, Courage, and Heroism Studies
2021 - Taylor & Francis | Journal of Graphic Novels & Comics