In The Mood for Urban Culture: Jan Mintaraga’s Romance Comics

DOI

10.2991/icsgs-18.2019.10How to use a DOI?

Keywords

urban culture, hegemonic process, ideological struggle

Abstract

The art of the comic book narrative combines pictures and words. Thus, the romance comics that began in Indonesia with the publication of Jan Mintaraga’s creations (1942-1999) in the first stages of the domination of the New Order from 1966 to 1971 reveal the signs of the hegemonic process that puts Jakarta as the representation of urban culture. The determination of power and the ideological struggle form the settings, plots, and life styles of an urban culture in the making. 38 titles of research material are used as sources for this study investigating the social, economic, and political aspects of the discourse. The examination yields the finding that the dialectics pertaining to the dreams and realities of the past are useful for the study of current urban life. The experimental culture conditions experienced in that period, along with the role played by niche-markets, are staging a come-back at the start of the digital age.

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© 2019, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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