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Christiansen, Steen. "The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image transmetropolitan's critique of the society of the spectacle." Elective Affinities. Testing Word and Image Relationships. Eds. Catriona MacLeod, Véronique Plesch and Charlotte Schoell-Glass. Word & Image Interactions. Amsterdam [etc.]: Rodopi, 2009. 147–58. Added by: joachim (12/30/09, 3:41 PM) |
| Resource type: Book Article Language: en: English BibTeX citation key: Christiansen2009 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: "Transmetropolitan", Ellis. Warren, Intermediality, Journalism, Robertson. Darick, Science Fiction, Social criticism, United Kingdom, USA, Visual Culture Creators: Christiansen, MacLeod, Plesch, Schoell-Glass Publisher: Rodopi (Amsterdam [etc.]) Collection: Elective Affinities. Testing Word and Image Relationships |
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In this article, Warren Ellis’s and Darick Robertson’s [constantly called ‘Roberts’ throughout the whole article; ed.] science fiction comic book Transmetropolitan is shown to be a critique of the society of the spectacle, a warning against visual culture’s media saturation. Being at the same time both rebellious and nostalgic, the comic book reacts strongly against what it sees as the hyperreality of images, a condition which destroys meaning and empties the subject until humans are mere commodities. Using a cultural semiotics approach, I show how the comic book uses words to control the image, and to present strategies for opposition to dominant culture.
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