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Urban comics : infrastructure and the global city in contemporary graphic narratives. Dominic Davies

Davies, Dominic [1988-...] 2019

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  • Titre:
    Urban comics : infrastructure and the global city in contemporary graphic narratives. Dominic Davies
  • Titres liés: Collection :Routledge advances in comics studies (Print) Urban comics
  • Auteur: Davies, Dominic [1988-...]
  • Éditeur: New York, N.Y. London : Routledge, 2019
  • Sujets: Villes -- Dans les bandes dessinées;
    Réseaux (aménagement du territoire) -- Dans les bandes dessinées;
    Pays en voie de développement -- Dans les bandes dessinées;
    Bandes dessinées;
    Romans graphiques;
    Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism;
    Graphic novels -- History and criticism;
    Cities and towns in literature;
    Public spaces in literature;
    Infrastructure (Economics) in literature;
    Narration (Rhetoric)
  • Notes: La ressource est également disponible en version électronique
  • Contient: Drawing public space: revolutionary visual cultures and the right to the city in Cairo Image-making in the global city: eco-speculative fictions and urban social movements in Cape Town Graphic Katrina: disaster capitalism and tourism gentrification in New Orleans Comics, collectives, collaborations: engineering pedestrian and public spaces in Delhi Comics as infrastructure: public space and post-war reconstruction in Beirut
  • Résumé: This book makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban studies, offering a decolonisation and reconfiguration of both of these already interdisciplinary fields. With chapter-length discussions of comics from cities such as Cairo, Cape Town, New Orleans, Delhi and Beirut, this book shows how artistic collectives and urban social movements working across the global South are producing some of the most exciting and formally innovative graphic narratives of the contemporary moment. Throughout, the author reads an expansive range of graphic narratives through the vocabulary of urban studies to argue that these formal innovations should be thought of as a kind of infrastructure. This 'infrastructural form' allows urban comics to reveal that the built environments of our cities are not static, banal, or depoliticised, but rather highly charged material spaces that allow some forms of social life to exist while also prohibiting others. Built from a formal infrastructure of grids, gutters and panels, and capable of volumetric, multi-scalar perspectives, this book shows how urban comics are able to represent, repair and even rebuild contemporary global cities toward more socially just and sustainable ends. Operating at the intersection of comics studies and urban studies, and offering large global surveys alongside close textual and visual analyses, this book explores and opens up the fascinating relationship between comics and graphic narratives, on the one hand, and cities and urban spaces, on the other.
  • Langue: Anglais
  • Date d'édition: 2019
  • Identifiant: 978-1-138-48358-3 ; 1-138-48358-3
  • Desc. matérielle: 1 vol. (xiii-273 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm
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