ISSN:
0022-3840
Language:
English
Titel der Quelle:
Journal of popular culture : JPC : the official publication of the Popular Culture Association, Popular Literature Section (Comparative Literature II) of the Modern Language Association of America and the Popular Section of the Midwest Modern Language Association
Publ. der Quelle:
Malden, Mass. [u.a.] : Blackwell Publ
Angaben zur Quelle:
Vol. 49, No. 2 (2016), p. 385-402
DDC:
390
Abstract:
All it takes is one bad day to reduce the sanest man alive to lunacy" (Moore and Boland 39). So The Joker tells Batman in the graphic novel, The Killing Joke. In the lore of The Joker, such casual and unsubstantiated references to mental health issues are common. Yet his cocreator, Jerry Robinson, did not write the villain as someone experiencing mental ill-health, but rather viewed him as a remorseless psychopathic murderer (Rosenberg et al.). Fictional depictions of mental health diagnoses may make for dramatic and entertaining viewing, but such inaccuracies present audiences with misinformation and contribute to stigma.
Note:
Copyright: © 2016 Wiley Periodicals, Inc
URL:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jpcu.12402/abstract
URL:
http://search.proquest.com/docview/1779676880
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