{"product_id":"storytelling-in-kabuki-steen-ledet-christiansen-9781496226686","title":"Storytelling in Kabuki: An Exploration of Spatial Poetics of Comics","description":"\u003cp\u003eSteen Ledet Christiansen's \u003cem\u003eStorytelling in \"Kabuki\"\u003c\/em\u003e explores the series created by David Mack--a slow, recursive narrative that focuses on the death of Kabuki and her past. The series ran from 1994 to 2004 in a variety of miniseries, one-shots, and spin-offs, rather than following a conventional American monthly release schedule. Most of the series explores different perspectives on the same event and adds background to Kabuki's past, usually through surreal sequences, dreams, and near-death experiences. The flexibility of comics' approach to chronology, space, focalization, narrative, and fictionality enabled Mack to produce an unusual experience. \u003cem\u003eKabuki\u003c\/em\u003e tells a story that can only exist via comics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e Christiansen analyzes the visual design of the series, a heterogeneous collection of styles depending on the story. To understand \u003cem\u003eKabuki\u003c\/em\u003e, it is crucial to explore the visual styles, as well as the use of visual and spatial rhymes and mixed media forms. Because \u003cem\u003eKabuki\u003c\/em\u003e employs a complex layering of focalizations, diegetic levels, and metafictional self-reflectivity that is rare in mainstream American comics, it utilizes a narrative poetics that focuses on constant repeating, restating, and returning to the same events. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eKabuki\u003c\/em\u003e's unique compositional layering allows Christiansen to provide a clear example of how comics work while also expanding on critical vocabulary, especially in terms of spatial poetics. By exploring spatial form, Christiansen illuminates and gives a critical framework to a different and underexamined aspect of comics. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eSteen Ledet Christiansen\u003c\/strong\u003e is a professor of culture, media, and aesthetics at Aalborg University. He is the author of \u003cem\u003eDrone Age Cinema: Action Films and Sensory Assault\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eThe New Cinematic Weird: Atmospheres and Worldings\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Steen Ledet Christiansen\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1496226682\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781496226686\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Nebraska Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/01\/2024\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 204\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.50lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.47d","brand":"Steen Ledet Christiansen","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44540300558591,"sku":"9781496226686","price":30.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_4c4e32aa-f285-4039-a52a-3b031fef0af6.jpg?v=1700587129","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/storytelling-in-kabuki-steen-ledet-christiansen-9781496226686","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}