1. The Harold Bloom conversation seems to be people talking at cross-purposes with one group saying "let's celebrate the great man's work" & another saying "he was a creep & predator." But maybe the two sides can be linked? What's the relationship between the life & work?
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10. It's too bad Harold Bloom was so dismissive of popular culture because his "Anxiety of Influence" paradigm really helps illuminate the Joker movie.
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11. The melancholy of Joker comes from what Bloom would call its belatedness, its desire to simultaneously pay tribute to the symbolic father (Scorsese) and also to kill and replace him.
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12. Joker, in the new film, is a fusing of the main characters of two Scorsese films (Taxi Driver & King of Comedy). Robert DeNiro, who played those characters, is in Joker and his character is killed by Joker. Joker is about the desire to kill & replace Scorsese.
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13. The oedipal theme is pretty explicit in Joker (the hero thinks Thomas Wayne is his father & hates him). But it exists not just at the level of plot but also the subtext (in how the Scorsese material is handled). Scorsese has to be eliminated for a fresh start to begin.
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14. I think Scorsese is of the oedipal drama going on, hence his hostile comments about superhero movies. He's not prepared to give up the throne to this unworthy spawn.
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The irony being that it was made possible by institutions in the brief period when they handed out tenure like candy.
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The charge of hyper-individualism feels off the mark particularly when so much of his work is about influence and how artists read and misread each other; and regarding neoliberalism and the "school of resentment," I have read his writing here as being more against tokenism.
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I'd say you have a solid, intriguing Bloom obit brewing here. Plus a rather separate article giving a Bloomian reading of Joker. The second is likely to eclipse the first (in the current moment), so I'd concentrate on the first!
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Excellent analysis of Bloom. Thanks.
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" rather than the scholarly work that his lasting reputation rests on (the advocacy for the romantics & "Anxiety of Influence"