A collaboration between Francois Schuiten and Benoà t Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental. This book offers a study of this seminal series, exploring the artistic traditions from which it emerges and the ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space.
A collaboration between Francois Schuiten and Benoà t Peeters, The Obscure Cities is one of the few comics series to achieve massive popularity while remaining highly experimental. This book offers a study of this seminal series, exploring the artistic traditions from which it emerges and the ways it plays with genre, gender, and urban space.
JAN BAETENS is a professor of cultural studies at the University of Leuven in Flanders, Belgium. His recent books on comics and visual studies include The Graphic Novel, coauthored with Hugo Frey, The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel, coedited with Frey and Steve Tabachnick, Novelization: From Film to Novel and The Film Photonovel: A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations.
Inhaltsangabe
Contents List of Illustrations 1 A New Series, A New Type of Author 2 A World of Its Own 3 More than a Possible World 4 Between Chapter and Series 5 A New Fantastic 6 In and Out the Medium 7 Doing Politics in Comics 8 Close-reading The Leaning Girl 9 A Conversation with Benoît Peeters 10 Image Gallery Acknowledgments Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index
Contents List of Illustrations 1 A New Series, A New Type of Author 2 A World of Its Own 3 More than a Possible World 4 Between Chapter and Series 5 A New Fantastic 6 In and Out the Medium 7 Doing Politics in Comics 8 Close-reading The Leaning Girl 9 A Conversation with Benoît Peeters 10 Image Gallery Acknowledgments Primary Sources Secondary Sources Index
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