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  • Cultures of Representation

    Disability in World Cinema Contexts

    Edited by Benjamin Fraser ...
    Cultures of Representation is the first book to explore the cinematic portrayal of disability in films from across the globe. Contributors explore classic and recent works from Belgium, France, Germany, India, Italy, Iran, Japan, Korea, Mexico, Netherlands, Russia, Senegal, and Spain, along with a pair of globally resonant Anglophone films. Anchored by David T. Mitchell and Sharon L. Snyder's ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Comics Beyond Text and Image

    On the Substance of Visual Narration

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    Series series Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
    Comics Beyond Text and Image conceptualizes comics as “bodies,” exploring the substance and the many movements and expressions of comics first and foremost in terms of corporeality.The book centers on the metaphor of the comics body as a way of opening up our understandings of what comics do. It begins from the position that narrative in comics is corporeal, expressed in and through the visual ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Barcelona, City of Comics

    Urbanism, Architecture, and Design in Postdictatorial Spain

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    Series series SUNY series in Latin American and Iberian Thought and Culture
    Explores the close relationship between comics and urbanism in one of Europe's most notable global cities.Barcelona, City of Comics introduces readers of English to a range of Spanish- and Catalan-language comics published after the death of dictator Francisco Franco in 1975. During this time of palpable social change, the Catalonian capital regained its reputation as the hub of comics publishing ... Read more

    $33.29 USD

  • Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City

    The Partial Madness of Modern Urban Culture

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    Although many depictions of the city in prose, poetry, and visual art can be found dating from earlier periods in human history, Obsession, Aesthetics, and the Iberian City emphasizes a particular phase in urban development. This is the quintessentially modern city that comes into being in the nineteenth century. In social terms, this nineteenth-century city is the product of a specialist class of ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • The Art of Pere Joan

    Space, Landscape, and Comics Form

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    Born in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the self-published collections Baladas Urbanas and MuŽrdago, both of which were released almost immediately after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco and Spain's transition to democracy. The first monograph in English on a comics artist from the ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • Visible Cities, Global Comics

    Urban Images and Spatial Form

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title for 2020More and more people are noticing links between urban geography and the spaces within the layout of panels on the comics page. Benjamin Fraser explores the representation of the city in a range of comics from across the globe. Comics address the city as an idea, a historical fact, a social construction, a material-built environment, a shared space forged ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Marxism and Urban Culture

    by Benjamin Fraser, Les Roberts, Malcolm Alan Compitello, Marc James Léger, Cayley Sorochan, Heather A. Vrana, Jeff Hicks, Kimberley DeFazio, Jelle Versieren, Brecht De Smet0, Manuel Yang1, Takeshi Haraguchi2, Kazuya Sakurada3 ...
    Marxism and Urban Culture is the first volume to reconcile social science and humanities perspectives on culture. Covering a range of global cities—Bologna, Buenos Aires, Guatemala City, Liverpool, London, Los Angeles, Madrid, Mahalla al-Kubra, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Strasbourg, Vienna—the contributions fuse political and theoretical concerns with analyses of urban cultural practices and ... Read more

    $49.39 USD

  • Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds

    A Philosophy of Painting

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    Antonio López García’s Everyday Urban Worlds: A Philosophy of Painting is the first book to give the famed Spanish artist the critical attention he deserves. Born in Tomelloso in 1936 and still living in the Spanish capital today, Antonio López has long cultivated a reputation for impressive urban scenes—but it is urban time that is his real subject.Going far beyond mere artist biography, Benjamin ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Digital Cities: The Interdisciplinary Future of the Urban Geo-Humanities

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    This book highlights an interdisciplinary terrain where the humanities and social sciences combine with digital methods. It argues that while disciplinary frictions still condition the potential of digital projects, the nature of the urban phenomenon pushes us toward an interdisciplinary and digital future where the primacy of cities is assured. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Toward an Urban Cultural Studies

    Henri Lefebvre and the Humanities

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    Series series Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
    Toward an Urban Cultural Studies is a call for a new interdisciplinary area of research and teaching. Blending Urban Studies and Cultural Studies, this book grounds readers in the extensive theory of the prolific French philosopher Henri Lefebvre. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Cognitive Disability Aesthetics

    Visual Culture, Disability Representations, and the (In)Visibility of Cognitive Difference

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    Series series Toronto Iberic
    Cognitive Disability Aesthetics explores the invisibility of cognitive disability in theoretical, historical, social, and cultural contexts. Benjamin Fraser’s cutting edge research and analysis signals a second-wave in disability studies that prioritizes cognition. Fraser expands upon previous research into physical disability representations and focuses on those disabilities that tend to be least ... Read more

    $62.69 USD

  • Ben Katchor

    by Benjamin Fraser ...
    Series Book 2 - Biographix
    The recipient of a 2000 MacArthur fellowship, Ben Katchor (b. 1951) is a beloved comics artist with a career spanning four decades. Published in indie weeklies across the United States, his comics are known for evoking the sensorium of the modern metropolis. As part of the Biographix series edited by Frederick Luis Aldama, Ben Katchor offers scholars and fans a thorough overview of the artist’s ... Read more

    $14.39 USD