Alan Moore, Out from the Underground

Cartooning, Performance, and Dissent
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2017
ISBN: 978-3-319-88260-4
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 298 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 4049 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

This book explores Alan Moore’s career as a cartoonist, as shaped by his transdisciplinary practice as a poet, illustrator, musician and playwright as well as his involvement in the Northampton Arts Lab and the hippie counterculture in which it took place. It traces Moore’s trajectory out from the underground comix scene of the 1970s and into a commercial music press rocked by the arrival of punk. In doing so it uncovers how performance has shaped Moore’s approach to comics and their political potential. Drawing on the work of Bertolt Brecht, who similarly fused political dissent with experimental popular art, this book considers what looking strangely at Alan Moore as cartoonist tells us about comics, their visual and material form, and the performance and politics of their reading and making.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gray, Maggie

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Filmwissenschaft, Fernsehen, Radio Filmgattungen, Filmgenre
• Sozialwissenschaften Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaften Medienwissenschaften
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaft und Gesellschaft | Kulturwissenschaften Kulturwissenschaften
• Geisteswissenschaften Design Comics & Cartoons (Design)

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. the Marks of the Arts Lab: Comics, Performance, and the Counterculture.- Chapter 3. the Play of the Press: Cartooning, Materiality, and the Underground in Print.- Chapter 4. the Sound of the Underground: Comics, Music and the Politics of Punk.

Über Autor(innen)

Maggie Gray is Lecturer in Critical and Historical Studies at the Kingston School of Art, Kingston University, London, UK.