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Zusatztext ‘There is an obvious affinity between comics and the city that this welcome collection of essays explores at length from a variety of disciplinary perspectives... The anthology is broken down thematically rather than chronologically, and works all the better for it...this is an important and necessary intervention in a burgeoning area of studies.' Informationen zum Autor Comics and the City deals with possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comicsâurban topography and environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of international approaches from the three main comic book cultures Klappentext Includes international essays on possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. Vorwort Includes international essays on possibly the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. Zusammenfassung Deals with the most important aspect of the aesthetics and narratives of comics - urban topography and environment. This collection of essays covers a variety of international approaches from the three main comic book cultures: the US, Europe, and Japan. Inhaltsverzeichnis Jörn Ahrens and Arno Meteling: IntroductionI. History, Comics, and the City1. Jens Balzer: "Hully Gee, I'm a Hieroglyphe" - Mobilizing the Gaze and the Invention of Comics in New York City, 18952. Ole Frahm: Every Window Tells a Story: Remarks on the Urbanity of Early Comic Strips3. Anthony Enns: The City as Archive in Jason Lutes' BerlinII. Retrofuturistic and Nostalgic Cities4. Henry Jenkins: "The Tomorrow that Never Was" - Retrofuturism in the Comics of Dean Motter5. Stefanie Diekmann: Remembrance of Things to Come: François Schuiten and Benoît Peeters' Cities of the Fantastic6. Michael Cuntz: Paris au pluriel: Depictions of the French Capital in Jacques Tardi's Comic Book WritingIII. Superhero Cities7. William Uricchio: The Batman's Gotham City™: Story, Ideology, Performance8. Arno Meteling: A Tale of Two Cities: Politics, and Superheroics in Starman and Ex Machina9. Anthony Lioi: The Radiant City: New York as Ecotopia in Promethea, Book V10. Jason Bainbridge: "I am New York" - Spider-Man, New York City, and the Marvel UniverseIV. Locations of Crime11. Greg M. Smith: Will Eisner, Vaudevillian of the Cityscape12. Björn Quiring: "A Fiction That We Must Inhabit" - Sense Production in Urban Spaces According to Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell13. Jörn Ahrens: The Ordinary Urban: 100 Bullets and the Clichés of Mass CultureV. The City-Comic as a Mode of Reflection14. André Suhr: Seeing the City through a Frame: Marc-Antoine Mathieu's Acquefacques-Comics15. Andreas Platthaus: Calisota or Bust: Duckburg vs. Entenhausen in the Comics of Carl Barks16. Thomas Becker: Enki Bilal's Woman Trap: Reflections on Authorship under the Shifting Boundaries between Order and Terror in the Cities...
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Jörn Ahrens teaches cultural sociology at Giessen University, Germany.
Arno Meteling teaches literature at the Westfalian Wilhelms-University Muenster in Germany.
