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The Ambiguities of European Comic-book Bikers

- Navigating the Twists and Turns
Af: David Walton Engelsk Hardback

The Ambiguities of European Comic-book Bikers

- Navigating the Twists and Turns
Af: David Walton Engelsk Hardback
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In this book, David Walton explores European comic-book biker publications as a subgenre of popular culture. Using a multidisciplinary approach, he reveals an intricate amalgam of ingenuity, irony, and highly ambiguous humor. The creative resourcefulness of the comic-book biker authors is seen to dramatize and celebrate the material existence of motorcycles and lifestyles while laughing at the foibles, inconsistencies, manias, fantasies, and practices of those characterised as motorized flâneurs. At the core of Walton’s analysis is the exploration of identity formation, marked by tensions between individualism and collective affinities, undermined by egoism and competitiveness.

At the same time, Walton argues that the storylines (despite much comic invention, caricature, and exaggeration) create resonances which hold up a distorted but highly revealing mirror to the multiple subgroups of people who ride motorcycles for pleasure. The author also demonstrates how the implied biker-readers of this subgenre confront comic representations of themselves which repeatedly undermine any positive self-image they may possess. Yet the comics are also seen to offer valuable insights into much broader cultural concerns ranging from subculture, consumption habits, (in)authenticity, taste, freedom, risk, and delinquency – without forgetting other key aspects of cultural studies like class, race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ecocriticism.

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In this book, David Walton explores European comic-book biker publications as a subgenre of popular culture. Using a multidisciplinary approach, he reveals an intricate amalgam of ingenuity, irony, and highly ambiguous humor. The creative resourcefulness of the comic-book biker authors is seen to dramatize and celebrate the material existence of motorcycles and lifestyles while laughing at the foibles, inconsistencies, manias, fantasies, and practices of those characterised as motorized flâneurs. At the core of Walton’s analysis is the exploration of identity formation, marked by tensions between individualism and collective affinities, undermined by egoism and competitiveness.

At the same time, Walton argues that the storylines (despite much comic invention, caricature, and exaggeration) create resonances which hold up a distorted but highly revealing mirror to the multiple subgroups of people who ride motorcycles for pleasure. The author also demonstrates how the implied biker-readers of this subgenre confront comic representations of themselves which repeatedly undermine any positive self-image they may possess. Yet the comics are also seen to offer valuable insights into much broader cultural concerns ranging from subculture, consumption habits, (in)authenticity, taste, freedom, risk, and delinquency – without forgetting other key aspects of cultural studies like class, race and ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and ecocriticism.

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Sprog: Engelsk
Sider: 216
ISBN-13: 9781666965360
Indbinding: Hardback
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ISBN-10: 1666965367
Kategori: Populærkultur
Udg. Dato: 20 aug 2024
Længde: 19mm
Bredde: 235mm
Højde: 159mm
Forlag: Lexington Books
Oplagsdato: 20 aug 2024
Forfatter(e): David Walton
Forfatter(e) David Walton

Kategori Populærkultur

ISBN-13 9781666965360

Sprog Engelsk

Indbinding Hardback

Sider 216

Udgave

Længde 19mm

Bredde 235mm

Højde 159mm

Udg. Dato 20 aug 2024

Oplagsdato 20 aug 2024

Forlag Lexington Books

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