Comic book geographies
By: edited by Jason Dittmer
Series: Media Geography at Mainz -- volume 4; Media geography at Mainz (Stuttgart, Germany) -- v. 4.
Publisher: Franz Steiner Verlag; Franz Steiner Verlag Wiesbaden GmbH
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Stuttgart
Language: eng
Number of pages: 227
ISBN-13: 9783515102698
Subjects: History and criticism; Comic books, strips; Place (Philosophy) in literature
Description: Comic Book Geographies is a volume that brings together scholars from the discipline of geography and the field of comics studies to consider the multiple ways in which space is both constitutive of, and produced through, comic books. Senior scholars contribute their thoughts alongside a range of fresh talent from both fields, providing for a potent mix of perspectives. Together, these chapters reframe debates about comic books by highlighting their unique spatialities and the way that those spatialities are shot through by a range of relationships to time. Examples are drawn from a wide range of geographical contexts, from post-9/11 American superhero comics to the Franco-Belgian tradition and from comics intended for mass consumption to the spoken-word performances of Alan Moore. As a truly interdisciplinary engagement, with scholars coming from geography, literature, history, and beyond, Comic Book Geographies brings together perspectives on comic books that have too long been working in isolation"--page 4 of cover.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Part 1.; title: Representing and performing place/space --; title: Framing landscape : Dan Dare, the Eagle and post-war culture in Britain  -- Oliver Dunnett; title: 10th April, 1999, Conway Hall, Red Lion Square : Snakes and ladders, occult cartography and radical nostalgia  -- Tony Venezia; title: Live/Work : Portland, Oregon as a place for comics creation  -- Shaun Huston -- Part 2.; title: Bodies politic --; title: From wandering women to fixed females : relations of gendered movement through post-colonial space in Lettres d'outremer and Le bar du vieux français  -- Catriona MacLeod; title: Put your body on the line : autobiographical comics, empathy and plurivocality  -- Juliet J. Fall; title: Post-modern witness : journalism and representation in Joe Sacco's Christmas with Karadzic  -- Edward C. Holland -- Part 3.; title: Space and comics theory --; title: We share our mother's health : temporality and the gothic in comic book landscapes  -- Julia Round; title: The body (politic) in pieces : post 9/11 Marvel superhero narratives and fragmentation  -- Michael Goodrum; title: And so. Some comic theory courtesy of Chris Ware and Gilles Deleuze, amongst others : or, an explication of why comics is not a sequential art -- Marcus A. Doel.