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Visible Cities, Global Comics: Urban Images and Spatial Form

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More and more people are noticing links between urban geography and the spaces within the layout of panels on the comics page. Benjamin Fraser explores the representation of the city in a range of comics from across the globe. Comics address the city as an idea, a historical fact, a social construction, a material-built environment, a shared space forged from the collective imagination, or as a social arena navigated according to personal desire. Accordingly, Fraser brings insights from urban theory to bear on specific comics. The works selected comprise a variety of international, alternative, and independent small-press comics artists, from engravings and early comics to single-panel work, graphic novels, manga, and trading cards, by artists such as Will Eisner, Tsutomu Nihei, Hariton Pushwagner, Julie Doucet, Frans Masereel, and Chris Ware. In the first monograph on this Subject, Fraser touches on many themes of modern urban life: activism, alienation, consumerism, flânerie, gentrification, the mystery story, science fiction, sexual orientation, and working-class labor. He leads readers to images of such cities as Barcelona, Buenos Aires, London, Lyon, Madrid, Montevideo, Montreal, New York, Oslo, Paris, São Paolo, and Tokyo. Through close readings, each chapter introduces readers to specific comics artists and works and investigates a range of topics related to the medium’s spatial form, stylistic variation, and cultural prominence. Mainly, Fraser mixes interest in urbanism and architecture with the creative strategies that comics artists employ to bring their urban images to life.

About the Author :
Benjamin Fraser is professor of Spanish and head of the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Arizona. He is author of several books including The Art of Pere Joan: Space, Landscape, and Comics Form; Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities; and Toward an Urban Cultural Studies: Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities.

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Benjamin Fraser has gifted us a path-breaking interdisciplinary study of the way that comics enable us to think through the varied experiences of the urban environment. A truly global study, Fraser transports us from the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona to the streets of São Paolo, from the skylines of New York to the types of fictional cityscapes that only comics can produce. This wide-ranging and deep-diving volume promises to open comics studies to entirely new ways of thinking.--Bart Beaty, professor of English at University of Calgary Benjamin Fraser has written a seminal book. Until now we did not have a study covering the field of comics and the city. Fraser's book is now offering a comprehensive overview to the relations between the city and the medium of comics, and it also provides deep readings and analyses of selected works. Whatever research will follow approaching the subject of comics and the city, it will all stem from Fraser's book.--Jörn Ahrens, professor of cultural sociology at Giessen University, Germany, and professor of cultural anthropology at North West University, South Africa This is a wonderful book to explore how cities are represented in comics. A superb prompt to deeply reflect on the graphic textures of urbanism, urban life, and the material and iconic representation of global cities. A truly delightful work that inspires one to keep loving comics and think about them with spatial passion and the graphic fascination of the urban heart.--Ana Merino, professor of Hispanic studies at the University of Iowa


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781496825049
  • Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
  • Publisher Imprint: University Press of Mississippi
  • Height: 233 mm
  • No of Pages: 300
  • Returnable: Y
  • Sub Title: Urban Images and Spatial Form
  • Width: 155 mm
  • ISBN-10: 1496825047
  • Publisher Date: 30 Sep 2019
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 17 mm
  • Weight: 517 gr


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