Learning to Feel? An Essay on Death, Sex and Tricksterism in Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019)
Introduction In 2019, Todd Phillips’s Joker (2019) became the highest-grossing R-rated film in history (Yang 2019). The origin story of the Joker[1] has elicited many discussions on issues of social concern. Compared to many other Batman-related narratives in the DC … Continued