Benjamin Fraser
- Published in print:
- 2019
- Published Online:
- May 2020
- ISBN:
- 9781496825032
- eISBN:
- 9781496825025
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Mississippi
- DOI:
- 10.14325/mississippi/9781496825032.003.0002
- Subject:
- Literature, Comics Studies
This chapter explores the way in which early comics established a legacy emphasizing urban street life. It begins by detailing the connection of comics with urban environments, themes and circulation ...
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This chapter explores the way in which early comics established a legacy emphasizing urban street life. It begins by detailing the connection of comics with urban environments, themes and circulation patterns in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century London, England, Geneva, Switzerland, and New York, USA. For this discussion, A Harlot’s Progress by William Hogarth, the caricature and urban themes of Rodolphe Töpffer, and Richard F. Outcault’s The Yellow Kid and Hogan’s Alley serve as paradigmatic examples. Attention then turns to Winsor McCay’s vibrant Sunday-page color Little Nemo comics, which harnessed suburban dreams at the dawn of the twentieth century. Finally, an example from the twenty-first century demonstrates how these earlier themes are important for understanding the continuing legacy of urban comics. Contemporary Canadian artist Sophie Yanow’s War of Streets and Houses recalls the graphic and stylistic innovation and spatio-historical context of Töpffer’s comics production.Less
This chapter explores the way in which early comics established a legacy emphasizing urban street life. It begins by detailing the connection of comics with urban environments, themes and circulation patterns in eighteenth-, nineteenth- and twentieth-century London, England, Geneva, Switzerland, and New York, USA. For this discussion, A Harlot’s Progress by William Hogarth, the caricature and urban themes of Rodolphe Töpffer, and Richard F. Outcault’s The Yellow Kid and Hogan’s Alley serve as paradigmatic examples. Attention then turns to Winsor McCay’s vibrant Sunday-page color Little Nemo comics, which harnessed suburban dreams at the dawn of the twentieth century. Finally, an example from the twenty-first century demonstrates how these earlier themes are important for understanding the continuing legacy of urban comics. Contemporary Canadian artist Sophie Yanow’s War of Streets and Houses recalls the graphic and stylistic innovation and spatio-historical context of Töpffer’s comics production.
Peter D. Norton
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- August 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780262141000
- eISBN:
- 9780262280754
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- The MIT Press
- DOI:
- 10.7551/mitpress/9780262141000.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, History of Science, Technology, and Medicine
Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where ...
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Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” This book argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, the book states, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. It describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. The book examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” It considers the perspectives of all users—pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. The book finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for “justice.” Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of “efficiency.” Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking “freedom”—a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States.Less
Before the advent of the automobile, users of city streets were diverse and included children at play and pedestrians at large. By 1930, most streets were primarily a motor thoroughfares where children did not belong and where pedestrians were condemned as “jaywalkers.” This book argues that to accommodate automobiles, the American city required not only a physical change but also a social one: before the city could be reconstructed for the sake of motorists, its streets had to be socially reconstructed as places where motorists belonged. It was not an evolution, the book states, but a bloody and sometimes violent revolution. It describes how street users struggled to define and redefine what streets were for. The book examines developments in the crucial transitional years from the 1910s to the 1930s, uncovering a broad anti-automobile campaign that reviled motorists as “road hogs” or “speed demons” and cars as “juggernauts” or “death cars.” It considers the perspectives of all users—pedestrians, police (who had to become “traffic cops”), street railways, downtown businesses, traffic engineers (who often saw cars as the problem, not the solution), and automobile promoters. The book finds that pedestrians and parents campaigned in moral terms, fighting for “justice.” Cities and downtown businesses tried to regulate traffic in the name of “efficiency.” Automotive interest groups, meanwhile, legitimized their claim to the streets by invoking “freedom”—a rhetorical stance of particular power in the United States.
Danny M. Adkison and Lisa McNair Palmer
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- September 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780197514818
- eISBN:
- 9780197514849
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780197514818.003.0026
- Subject:
- Law, Constitutional and Administrative Law
This chapter focuses on Article XVIII of the Oklahoma constitution, which concerns municipal corporations. Section 1 recognizes the power of the legislature to create municipal corporations and ...
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This chapter focuses on Article XVIII of the Oklahoma constitution, which concerns municipal corporations. Section 1 recognizes the power of the legislature to create municipal corporations and define their powers, but puts certain limitations on that power. In Oklahoma, cities possess no inherent power or authority, but exercise only those powers expressly granted, or incidental to powers expressly granted, by the state of Oklahoma. Section 3(a) provides for the framing and adoption of a charter, while Section 3(b) focuses on the election of a board of freeholders. Meanwhile, Section 4(a) through Section 4(e) deals with the powers of the initiative and referendum. Section 5(a) provides that “no municipal corporation shall ever grant, extend, or renew a franchise, without the approval of a majority of the qualified electors residing within its corporate limits, who shall vote thereon at a general or special election.” Lastly, power over the city streets within municipalities is reserved to the state, but cities have been delegated full power to control and regulate the streets. Cities may, for instance, use this delegated power to regulate parking.Less
This chapter focuses on Article XVIII of the Oklahoma constitution, which concerns municipal corporations. Section 1 recognizes the power of the legislature to create municipal corporations and define their powers, but puts certain limitations on that power. In Oklahoma, cities possess no inherent power or authority, but exercise only those powers expressly granted, or incidental to powers expressly granted, by the state of Oklahoma. Section 3(a) provides for the framing and adoption of a charter, while Section 3(b) focuses on the election of a board of freeholders. Meanwhile, Section 4(a) through Section 4(e) deals with the powers of the initiative and referendum. Section 5(a) provides that “no municipal corporation shall ever grant, extend, or renew a franchise, without the approval of a majority of the qualified electors residing within its corporate limits, who shall vote thereon at a general or special election.” Lastly, power over the city streets within municipalities is reserved to the state, but cities have been delegated full power to control and regulate the streets. Cities may, for instance, use this delegated power to regulate parking.
David Luhrssen
- Published in print:
- 2012
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780813136769
- eISBN:
- 9780813141336
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Kentucky
- DOI:
- 10.5810/kentucky/9780813136769.003.0005
- Subject:
- Film, Television and Radio, Film
Mamoulian's second film, the gangster picture City Streets (1932), was based on a screenplay by Dashiell Hammett with Gary Cooper co-starring with Sylvia Sidney. From there, Mamoulian moved on to Dr. ...
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Mamoulian's second film, the gangster picture City Streets (1932), was based on a screenplay by Dashiell Hammett with Gary Cooper co-starring with Sylvia Sidney. From there, Mamoulian moved on to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), in which leading man Frederic March was transformed by groundbreaking special effects from the respectable Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde, a monstrous sexual predator. Restlessly exploring genres, he next made Love Me Tonight (1932), an innovative musical pairing the songs of Richard Rodgers with stars Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette McDonald, and a sophisticated tragic-comedy with Marlene Dietrich, The Song of Songs (1933).Less
Mamoulian's second film, the gangster picture City Streets (1932), was based on a screenplay by Dashiell Hammett with Gary Cooper co-starring with Sylvia Sidney. From there, Mamoulian moved on to Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931), in which leading man Frederic March was transformed by groundbreaking special effects from the respectable Dr. Jekyll into Mr. Hyde, a monstrous sexual predator. Restlessly exploring genres, he next made Love Me Tonight (1932), an innovative musical pairing the songs of Richard Rodgers with stars Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette McDonald, and a sophisticated tragic-comedy with Marlene Dietrich, The Song of Songs (1933).
Paul J. Magnarella
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- January 2021
- ISBN:
- 9780813066394
- eISBN:
- 9780813058603
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813066394.003.0002
- Subject:
- History, African-American History
Chapter 1 covers Pete O’Neal’s life from childhood to young adulthood. Pete describes his family life—his sometimes violent father, his nurturing mother, and his grandmother. He describes his first ...
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Chapter 1 covers Pete O’Neal’s life from childhood to young adulthood. Pete describes his family life—his sometimes violent father, his nurturing mother, and his grandmother. He describes his first arrest at age eleven and the racist language and physical intimidation of the policeman who interrogated him. He explains how the night life on Kansas City’s 12th Street both frightened and attracted him because of the admiration paid to its successful hustlers. Pete fails to socially adjust to racially integrated high school. After more scrapes with the law, he joins the Navy to avoid detention, only to be dishonorably discharged after fighting with fellow seamen and violating orders. He ends up in Soledad Prison where he applies himself to the education program it offers and achieves a sense of accomplishment by winning the Toastmaster International writing and speaking competition.Less
Chapter 1 covers Pete O’Neal’s life from childhood to young adulthood. Pete describes his family life—his sometimes violent father, his nurturing mother, and his grandmother. He describes his first arrest at age eleven and the racist language and physical intimidation of the policeman who interrogated him. He explains how the night life on Kansas City’s 12th Street both frightened and attracted him because of the admiration paid to its successful hustlers. Pete fails to socially adjust to racially integrated high school. After more scrapes with the law, he joins the Navy to avoid detention, only to be dishonorably discharged after fighting with fellow seamen and violating orders. He ends up in Soledad Prison where he applies himself to the education program it offers and achieves a sense of accomplishment by winning the Toastmaster International writing and speaking competition.
