Last Stop: This Town. Sameness, Suburbs and Spectrality in Daniel Clowes's <i>Ghost World</i>

Last Stop: This Town. Sameness, Suburbs and Spectrality in Daniel Clowes's <i>Ghost World</i>

Ghost World (1997) is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. Two teenage girls, having ended high school, confront with the passage to adult life in a spectral American suburbia scattered with non-places: diners, shopping malls, vinyl and comic stores. From their own bedrooms, the two spend their time cy...

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Main Author: Giorgio Busi Rizzi
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Università degli Studi di Cagliari 2018-07-01
Series:Between
Subjects:
Graphic novel
Spaces
Suburbs
Hauntology
Graffiti
Online Access:http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/3239
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spelling doaj-922307ae047c4971a8f243327bf5eeb42020-11-24T21:55:11ZengUniversità degli Studi di CagliariBetween2039-65972018-07-0181510.13125/2039-6597/32392353Last Stop: This Town. Sameness, Suburbs and Spectrality in Daniel Clowes's <i>Ghost World</i>Giorgio Busi Rizzi0KU Leuven, Università di BolognaGhost World (1997) is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. Two teenage girls, having ended high school, confront with the passage to adult life in a spectral American suburbia scattered with non-places: diners, shopping malls, vinyl and comic stores. From their own bedrooms, the two spend their time cynically commenting the fatuity of US pop culture, trapped between a haunting past and an uncertain future. This contribution intends to discuss space in Ghost World from three main perspectives, concerning the material book, the visual level (page layout, framing, colors) and the diegetical one (investigating spaces inside the story).http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/3239Graphic novelSpacesSuburbsHauntologyGraffiti
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Last Stop: This Town. Sameness, Suburbs and Spectrality in Daniel Clowes's <i>Ghost World</i>
Between
Graphic novel
Spaces
Suburbs
Hauntology
Graffiti
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title_full Last Stop: This Town. Sameness, Suburbs and Spectrality in Daniel Clowes's <i>Ghost World</i>
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publishDate 2018-07-01
description Ghost World (1997) is a graphic novel by Daniel Clowes. Two teenage girls, having ended high school, confront with the passage to adult life in a spectral American suburbia scattered with non-places: diners, shopping malls, vinyl and comic stores. From their own bedrooms, the two spend their time cynically commenting the fatuity of US pop culture, trapped between a haunting past and an uncertain future. This contribution intends to discuss space in Ghost World from three main perspectives, concerning the material book, the visual level (page layout, framing, colors) and the diegetical one (investigating spaces inside the story).
topic Graphic novel
Spaces
Suburbs
Hauntology
Graffiti
url http://ojs.unica.it/index.php/between/article/view/3239
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