@inbook{7c5ba69e8d9944b6991d55273bd3414c,
title = "“You Get What You Fucking Deserve”: Joker and the Fantasies of Refusal",
abstract = "This chapter examines Todd Phillips{\textquoteright}s 2019 film Joker with a focus on the different ways the film can be interpreted. In one reading, the film depicts the delusions of a mentally ill loner who lashes out at an indifferent society with violence. In another reading, the film tells the triumphant rise of a supervillain. These divergent fantasy frames are explored with a particular focus on the ways that music is used to shift between them.",
keywords = "Batman, Comic books, Musicals, Popular songs, Violence",
author = "Phillips, {Kendall R.}",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} 2021, The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG.",
year = "2021",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-74136-5_3",
language = "English (US)",
series = "Rhetoric, Politics and Society",
publisher = "Palgrave Macmillan",
pages = "41--74",
booktitle = "Rhetoric, Politics and Society",
}