Beyond The “Joker” Movie: Cinema As A Politainment Agent

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https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2023.606

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Cinema, Cinematographic apparatus, Representation, Political cinema, Joker

Abstract

In the scope of this study; Joker (2019) film will be analyzed and examined as a political entertainment medium through cinematic narration. The film is assessed both in terms of scene analysis and in terms of the film's current discourse. Within the framework of this study, Joker film evaluated thematically as a political entertainment thus this article aims to enlighten the relationship between cinematic representation and political circumstances through the perspective of Douglas Kellner's Cinema Wars narrative. The goal of this study was to break down Joker film to examine its ideological and aesthetic representations within the social, political and cultural context in the timeframe when the film was released to build up a bridge between political reality through the employment of cinematographic machinery.

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2023-12-20

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Dalkılıç, I. (2023). Beyond The “Joker” Movie: Cinema As A Politainment Agent. CINEJ Cinema Journal, 11(2), 519–551. https://doi.org/10.5195/cinej.2023.606

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Vol. 11 No. 2 (2023): Winter

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