Abstract
The relevance of the Joker as a prominent character in popular culture and film industry merited a tremendous scholarly attention. It has been analyzed through the lenses of various critical theories, inter alia the Bakhtinian “carnival”, the Freudians psychoanalysis, and several others but nearly there is no critical development of the Joker as a homme fatal. It is thus the novelty of my paper to do so; on the one hand, I aim to reconfigure the conceptualization of the homme fatal beyond its classical seductive and inveigling power within women’s world. Here, my endeavor is to redefine the fatality of homme fatal from the perspective of the Joker that is centralized more on an outlawed destructive personality far from being sexually desirable man. I focus on the “fatal men” and “fatal rebel” by Mario Praz in his Romantic Agony (1933). My study focuses the reconfiguration of homme fatal in two joker adaptations: The Dark Knight (2008) and The Suicide Squad (2016).
Presenters
Amira Rihab SaidiDoctoral Student, Department of English and American Studies, University of Szeged, Csongrád, Hungary
Details
Presentation Type
Paper Presentation in a Themed Session
Theme
The Arts in Social, Political, and Community Life
KEYWORDS
Homme Fatale, Joker, Rebel, Reconfiguration
