The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan's Critique of the Society of the...
The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan's Critique of the Society of the Spectacle
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Leiden: Brill Academic Publishers, Inc
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English
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In this essay, Warren Ellis and Darick Roberts's 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 condi...
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The Truth of the Word, the Falsity of the Image: Transmetropolitan's Critique of the Society of the Spectacle
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TN_cdi_proquest_journals_89263888
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/TN_cdi_proquest_journals_89263888
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1388-3569
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1879-6249
