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Comics and the City Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence

by: Ahrens, Jörn; Meteling, Arno

Comics and the City Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence

by: Ahrens, Jörn; Meteling, Arno

ISBN 13:
9780826440198
ISBN 10:
0826440193
Format: Paperback
Copyright: 03/11/2010
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic

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Includes international essays on possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and envi

Notes on the Contributors	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
History, Comics, and the City
“Hully Gee, I'm a Hieroglyphe” — Mobilizing the Gaze and the Invention of Comics in New York City, 1895	p. 19
Every Window Tells a Story: Remarks on the Urbanity of Early Comic Strips	p. 32
The City as Archive in Jason Lutes's Berlin	p. 45
Refrofuturistic and Nostalgic Cities
“The Tomorrow That Never Was”—Retrofuturism in the Comics of Dean Motter	p. 63
Remembrance of Things to Come: François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters's Cities of the Fantastic	p. 84
Paris au pluriel: Depictions of the French Capital in Jacques Tardi's Comic Book Writing	p. 101
Superhero Cities
The Batman's Gotham City&Trade;: Story, Ideology, Performance	p. 119
A Tale of Two Cities: Politics and Superheroics in Starman and Ex Machina	p. 133
The Radiant City: New York as Ecotopia in Promethea, Book V	p. 150
“I Am New York”—Spider-Man, New York City and the Marvel Universe	p. 163
Locations of Crime
Will Eisner, Vaudevillian of the Cityscape	p. 183
“A Fiction That We Must Inhabit”—Sense Production in Urban Spaces according to Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell	p. 199
The Ordinary Urban: 100 Bullets and the Clichés of Mass Culture	p. 214
The City-Comic as a Mode of Reflection
Seeing the City through a Frame: Marc-Antoine Mathieu's Acquefacques Comics	p. 231
Calisota or Bust: Duckburg vs. Entenhausen in the Comics of Carl Barks	p. 247
Enki Bilal's Woman Trap: Reflections on Authorship under the Shifting Boundaries between Order and Terror in the City	p. 265
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Comics and the City Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence

Comics and the City Urban Space in Print, Picture and Sequence

9780826440198

0826440193

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