Archive for December 2017

[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]

[ecrea] new issue: Journal of Urban Cultural Studies 4.3

Wed Dec 13 08:44:15 GMT 2017







Intellect is delighted to announce that the new issue of theJournal of Urban Cultural Studies <http://www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/jucs/2017/00000004/00000003>is now available.


Articles within this issue includes (partial list):


‘Comics on the Main Street of Culture’: Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’s From Hell(1999) Laura Oldfield Ford’s Savage Messiah(2011) and the politics of gentrification <https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24992/>

Authors: Dominic Davies

Page Start: 333


Through a comparative discussion of Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell’sFrom Hell (serialised 1989−96, collected 1999), which is now widely marketed as a ‘graphic novel’, and Laura Oldfield Ford’s more self-consciously subcultural zine, Savage Messiah(serialised 2005 to 2009, collected 2011), this article explores the correlation between the gentrification of the comics form and the urban gentrification of city space − especially that of East London, which is depicted in both of these sequential art forms. The article emphasises that both these urban and cultural landscapes are being dramatically reshaped by the commodification and subsequent marketisation of their subcultural or marginalised spaces, before exploring the extent to which this process neutralises their subversive qualities and limits democratic access to them. In conclusion, however, the article demonstrates that comics artists tend to collect their ephemeral comics and publish them as marketable graphic novels not to commodify them, nor to maximise their profits. Rather, they do so in order to reach a wider readership and thereby to mobilise their subversive, anti-gentrification political content more effectively, constituting radical urban subcultures that resist the reshaping of London into a segregated and discriminatory cityscape.


<https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24994/>

Glossy postcards and virtual collectibles: Consuming cinematic Paris <https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24994/>

Authors:Isabelle McNeill

Page Start: 387


This article examines the touristic consumption of Paris in cinema, through a concept of the cinematic postcard as a commodification of history and place, arguing that film participates in and also illuminates touristic relations to the city. The article proposes two iterations of the cinematic postcard: a ‘glossy’ postcard that incorporates past and present into a cohesively framed urban space, and ‘virtual collectibles’ that encourage the serial accumulation of familiar signs of place. While connected through a nostalgic relation to the urban past, these iterations reflect different anxieties about the city and are emphasised in different aesthetic strategies, which the article pursues through close analysis of two films: Vincent Minnelli’s An American in Paris(1951) and Woody Allen’s Midnight in Paris(2011). In the troubled Paris of the early post-war years, the tourist gaze of cinema provided a cohesive image constructed from a selective, cultural past, anticipating a postmodern aesthetic of nostalgia as identified by Fredric Jameson. In the age of what Boris Groys calls ‘total tourism’ and its proliferation of the collection and online display of images of place, the emphasis has shifted from transmission to the virtual collection of desirable, analogue images of Paris.


Global social activism, DIY culture and lack of institutional help <https://www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Article,id=24997/>

Authors: Jorge González del Pozo

Page Start: 427


Since the 2008 world economic crisis, new and different ways of community organisation, resilience and urban initiatives for provisioning and survival have emerged all over the world in an attempt to create urban spaces and opportunities in areas where institutions and governments are unable or unwilling to devote time and resources. Also, economic and sustainable models have found physical spaces from which to operate in the aftermath of the crisis and outside the ontological frame of extreme neo-liberalism. This article discusses the approximations to these initiatives in three texts addressing urban contexts in the United States (Detroit), Spain (Seville, Barcelona, Bilbao and Madrid) and Mexico (Mexico City). These three works call attention to the specificity of these projects and expose recent approaches to community building and organisational solutions in the Hispanic world.


---------------
The COMMLIST
---------------
This mailing list is a free service offered by Nico Carpentier. Please
use it responsibly and wisely.
--
To subscribe or unsubscribe, please visit http://commlist.org/
--
Before sending a posting request, please always read the guidelines at
http://commlist.org/
--
To contact the mailing list manager:
Email: (nico.carpentier /at/ vub.ac.be)
URL: http://nicocarpentier.net
---------------


[Previous message][Next message][Back to index]