Put on A Happy Face: Joker, Performance, and Emotional Labor — Analysis
Joker is an example of the mental toll that the struggle to adequately perform emotional labor can have on a person who is already struggling. In The Managed Heart: Commercialization of Human Feeling, by Arlie Russell Hochschild, (1983) Hochschild defines emotional labor in the following way: "This labor requires one to induce or suppress feeling…
