Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy; Section I: Divided Space;
1. All the World’s a Stage: Reading Space(s) in Todd Phillips’ Joker;
2. Joker and Gotham City: Identity Correspondence. The Political Value in the Evocation of New York City in the 1970s and the Imaginary of the New Hollywood Thriller;
3. Joker: Madly Walking and Dancing Through Space;
4. New York is Dead: The Joker Steps and Urban Melancholia; Section II: Mediated Uprisings;
5. Send in the Clowns: Joker, Vigilante films and Populist Revolt;
6. Looking at and with Images: Crowds in Joker, Joker in the Crowd;
7. Resisting Tyranny with Laughter: Joker and the Arab Revolutions;
8. Joker: Toxic Masculinity, the Instigation of (Political) Violence and the Protection of Minors in Greece; Section III: Violating Genre;
9. ‘Put on a Happy Face’: The Neoliberal Horrors of Joker/s;
10. Performance Crime, Trigger Warnings, and the Violence of Joker;
11. The Perfect Crime? Anthropology and Liminality in Joker; Section IV: Breaking the Ideal Man;
12. "What do you get when you cross a mentally ill loner with a society that abandons him?" - Madness and Power in Joker;
13. A Monster We (Re) Make: Family Violence and Monstrous Masculinity in Joker;
14. The Joker and Man in the Mirror: Through Chaos to True Identity;
15. Lives of Precarity in the Age of Neoliberalism: The Tales Untold