{"product_id":"9781496226686-storytelling-in-kabuki","title":"Storytelling in Kabuki","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAn Exploration of Spatial Poetics of Comics\u003cbr\u003eSteen Ledet Christiansen’s \u003ci\u003eStorytelling in “Kabuki”\u003c\/i\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. \u003ci\u003eKabuki\u003c\/i\u003e tells a story that can only exist via comics.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Christiansen analyzes the visual design of the series, a heterogeneous collection of styles depending on the story. To understand \u003ci\u003eKabuki\u003c\/i\u003e, it is crucial to explore the visual styles, as well as the use of visual and spatial rhymes and mixed media forms. Because \u003ci\u003eKabuki\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKabuki\u003c\/i\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41593328107617,"sku":"9781496226686","price":22.21,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/stand_37619912_4b3379fa-559f-4621-b488-c8294aa72b33.jpg?v=1762224301","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9781496226686-storytelling-in-kabuki","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}