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Joker-Every Frame a Painting
Magee, Virgil; Wayne, Virgil
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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/129080
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- Title
- Joker-Every Frame a Painting
- Author(s)
- Magee, Virgil
- Wayne, Virgil
- Contributor(s)
- Schumann, Emily
- Silva, Jeffrey
- Ring, Jeffrey
- Vigueras, Diego
- Issue Date
- 2020-10-21
- Keyword(s)
- Color script
- Blood symbolism
- Psychological thriller
- Date of Ingest
- 2025-09-22T15:39:06-05:00
- Abstract
- This study deconstructs Joker (2019) through its visual grammar, arguing that the film employs recurring motifs and stylistic strategies to externalize Arthur Fleck’s fractured subjectivity and his eventual transformation into the Joker. Rather than functioning as ornamental design, visual elements such as archways, mirrors, blood, stairs, and transparent barriers operate as semiotic markers of passage, alienation, and self-construction. The film’s cinematography—favoring handheld immediacy punctuated by composed tableaux—creates a dialectic between realism and theatricality, mirroring Fleck’s oscillation between invisibility and spectacle. Its evolving color script, shifting from muted tones to saturated primaries, reinforces this trajectory by aligning chromatic vibrancy with Arthur’s embrace of his Joker identity. Ultimately, the analysis situates Joker as more than a character study: it is a cinematic meditation on how marginalized identities are visually framed, obscured, and revealed within urban modernity. The film thus exemplifies how mise-en-scène and motif can render psychological decline as both personal tragedy and collective spectacle.
- Type of Resource
- still image
- Genre of Resource
- essay
- Language
- eng
- DOI
- 10.5281/zenodo.17179540
- Copyright and License Information
- © 2020 Virgil Magee
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