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This chapter builds upon the arguments established in the earlier chapters to reconfigure some ideas of space and framing in comics. Extending the arguments which established the idea of comics décor and paper actors in the previous chapters, this chapter applies theatrical theories of space and staging to comics. It dismantles the idea of the fourth wall in comics and argues for a reconceptualising of the audience relationship to space and narrative in comics.
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D’Arcy, G. (2020). Space. In: Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. Palgrave Pivot, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-51113-5_4
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