The Joker: the image representation of madness
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https://doi.org/10.5433/1679-0383.2009v30n2p111Keywords:
Peircean semiotics, Phenomenology, Comics, The Joker.Abstract
The object of study in this article is images taken from ‘Joker’ comic strips, published in Brazil in 2009 by Panini Comics. As the name suggests, these comics focus on the villain, on his attempt to restore his power in Gotham City, after years of confinement in Arkham Asylum. Somehow he can convince his doctors that he is sane. The analysis does not consider each story as a whole, but only isolated image clippings and a few dialogue lines which illustrate the chronic insanity of the protagonist. For that matter, the analytical methods utilized were the phenomenological categories of Charles Sanders Peirce and the trichotomy of sign in relation to the dynamic object - icon, index and symbol.
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