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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="color:black">That Joke Isn’t Funny Anymore: A Critical exploration of<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><i>The Joker</i></span><i><o:p></o:p></i></b></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b><span style="font-size:11.0pt">Abstract Deadline: 1<sup>st</sup> November<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<i><span style="color:black">Joker<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span></i><span style="color:black">(Phillips, 2019) has immediately become both a celebrated and derided film and media text: opening up a sea of reviews, interpretations, and critical
responses. The mainstream media has poured over it, fans and anti-fans have communed around it, and academics have taken up polar positions on its messages, ideologies, and aesthetics. The film has broken opening weekend box office records while its lead star,
Joaquin Phoenix, has been both chastised during interviews and openly hostile to the type of effects-driven question he has been set.<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span></span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<i><span style="color:black">Joker</span></i><span class="apple-converted-space"><span style="color:black"> </span></span><span style="color:black">arrives at a time of arguably unprecedented social malaise: it speaks to the culture of loneliness, toxic masculinity,
the crisis in whiteness, the break down in social networks, the expanding gap between rich and poor, and to the anger and rage that has entered discourse more broadly. It does this in ways which provokes and angers some and moves others.</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">In this proposed Special Edition</span> for the <i>New Review of Film and Television</i><span style="color:black">, we seek to explore the sightlines and subtexts, the affective shapes, corrosive ideologies and damning messages of
this film. Papers can address the following indicative topics but should also navigate their own course:</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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Perversion<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Violence and effects<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Environmental textures<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Social class<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
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Bad mothers<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Reproduction<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
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Waste and decay<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Mental health<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
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Memory<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Doppelganger<span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Nihilism<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Race and ethnicity<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Masculinity – failed, toxic, critical<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Hauntology<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
The city<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Surveillance<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
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Performance<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Movement<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
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Costume<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
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Fandom<o:p></o:p></li><li class="MsoListParagraph" style="color:black;margin-left:0cm;mso-list:l2 level1 lfo4">
Histories of Joker<o:p></o:p></li></ul>
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<b><span style="color:black">Abstracts of 250 words to Sean Redmond by November 1<sup>st</sup><span class="apple-converted-space"> </span>2019: <span class="apple-converted-space"> </span><a href="mailto:s.redmond@deakin.edu.au"><span style="color:#954F72">s.redmond@deakin.edu.au</span></a></span></b><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">All the best,</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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<span style="color:black">Sean</span><o:p></o:p></p>
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