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

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.


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