Tag: Clown

Discovering the Clown, or The Funny Book of Good Acting


Free Download Christopher Bayes, "Discovering the Clown, or The Funny Book of Good Acting"
English | ISBN: 1559365617 | 2019 | 192 pages | EPUB | 685 KB
"Christopher Bayes is a master, an extraordinary visionary who has done more to liberate young American actors over the last two generations than I can possibly express. His classes in Clowning are philosophical manifestos; the power of his laughter inextricable from the depth of his spirit. This book is a treasure. Nothing can replace the experience of being in the room with a master teacher, but this practical, playful, brilliant book is the next best thing. Read it. It is indispensable." -Oskar Eustis, Artistic Director, The Public Theater

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The Joker A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime [Audiobook]


Free Download The Joker: A Serious Study of the Clown Prince of Crime (Audiobook)
English | January 30, 2023 | ASIN: B0BTDVWJV8 | M4B@128 kbps | 11h 19m | 637 MB
Editors: Robert Moses Peaslee, Robert G. Weiner | Narrator: Rain Corbyn
Along with Batman, Spider-Man, and Superman, the Joker stands out as one of the most recognizable comics characters in popular culture. While there has been a great deal of scholarly attention on superheroes, very little has been done to understand supervillains. This is the first academic work to provide a comprehensive study of this villain, illustrating why the Joker appears so relevant to audiences today.
Batman’s foe has cropped up in thousands of comics, numerous animated series, and three major blockbuster feature films since 1966. Actually, the Joker debuted in DC comics Batman 1 (1940) as the typical gangster, but the character evolved steadily into one of the most ominous in the history of sequential art. Batman and the Joker almost seemed to define each other as opposites, hero and nemesis, in a kind of psychological duality. Scholars from a wide array of disciplines look at the Joker through the lens of feature films, video games, comics, politics, magic and mysticism, psychology, animation, television, performance studies, and philosophy. As the first volume that examines the Joker as complex cultural and cross-media phenomenon, this collection adds to our understanding of the role comic book and cinematic villains play in the world and the ways various media affect their interpretation. Connecting the Clown Prince of Crime to bodies of thought as divergent as Karl Marx and Friedrich Nietzsche, contributors demonstrate the frightening ways in which we get the monsters we need.

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