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Critical Directions in Comics Studies

Author : Thomas Giddens
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1496829018
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (968 download)

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Download or read book Critical Directions in Comics Studies written by Thomas Giddens and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola Streeten, and Lydia Wysocki Recent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root—assumptions around the particular methods used to approach the comics form, the ways we should read comics, how its “system” works, and the disciplinary relationships that surround this evolving area of study. But other perspectives have also begun to flourish. These approaches question the reliance on structural linguistics and the tools of English and cultural studies in the examination and understanding of comics. In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics’ creation and reception. Through this lens, influenced by poststructuralist theories, contributors explore and elaborate other possibilities for working with comics as a critical resource, consolidating the emergence of these alternative modes of engagement in a single text. This opens comics studies to a wider array of resources, perspectives, and modes of engagement. Included in this volume are essays on a range of comics and illustrations as well as considerations of such popular comics as Deadpool, Daredevil, and V for Vendetta, and analyses of comics production, medical illustrations, and original comics. Some contributions even unfold in the form of comics panels.

Critical Directions in Comics Studies

Author : Thomas Giddens
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781496829023
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Critical Directions in Comics Studies written by Thomas Giddens and published by . This book was released on 2020 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An examination of the cutting-edge critical engagement in the field of modern comics studies.

Critical Approaches to Comics

Author : Matthew J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136884734
Total Pages : 590 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (368 download)

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Download or read book Critical Approaches to Comics written by Matthew J. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-03-22 with total page 590 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fandom, genre, intertextuality, adaptation, gender, narrative, formalism, visual culture, and much more. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics, Critical Approaches to Comics is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies. Contributors: Henry Jenkins, David Berona, Joseph Witek, Randy Duncan, Marc Singer, Pascal Lefevre, Andrei Molotiu, Jeff McLaughlin, Amy Kiste Nyberg, Christopher Murray, Mark Rogers, Ian Gordon, Stanford Carpenter, Matthew J. Smith, Brad J. Ricca, Peter Coogan, Leonard Rifas, Jennifer K. Stuller, Ana Merino, Mel Gibson, Jeffrey A. Brown, Brian Swafford

Key Terms in Comics Studies

Author : Erin La Cour
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030749746
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Key Terms in Comics Studies written by Erin La Cour and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-01-03 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Key Terms in Comics Studies is a glossary of over 300 terms and critical concepts currently used in the Anglophone academic study of comics, including those from other languages that are currently adopted and used in English. Written by nearly 100 international and contemporary experts from the field, the entries are succinctly defined, exemplified, and referenced. The entries are 250 words or fewer, placed in alphabetical order, and explicitly cross-referenced to others in the book. Key Terms in Comics Studies is an invaluable tool for both students and established researchers alike.

Comics Studies

Author : Charles Hatfield
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
ISBN 13 : 0813591430
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (135 download)

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Download or read book Comics Studies written by Charles Hatfield and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-14 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comic art has grown at a dizzying pace, with new publications, institutions, and courses springing up everywhere. The field crosses disciplinary and cultural borders and brings together myriad traditions. Comics Studies: A Guidebook offers a rich but concise introduction to this multifaceted field, authored by leading experts in multiple disciplines. It opens diverse entryways to comics studies, including history, form, audiences, genre, and cultural, industrial, and economic contexts. An invaluable one-stop resource for veteran and new comics scholars alike, this guidebook represents the state of the art in contemporary comics scholarship.

More Critical Approaches to Comics

Author : Matthew J. Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429782756
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book More Critical Approaches to Comics written by Matthew J. Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-08-20 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. Contributors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including disability studies, parasocial relationships, scientific humanities, queer theory, linguistics, critical geography, philosophical aesthetics, historiography, and much more. As a companion to the acclaimed Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods, this second volume features 19 fresh perspectives and serves as a stand-alone textbook in its own right. More Critical Approaches to Comics is a compelling classroom or research text for students and scholars interested in Comics Studies, Critical Theory, the Humanities, and beyond.

The Secret Origins of Comics Studies

Author : Matthew Smith
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317505786
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book The Secret Origins of Comics Studies written by Matthew Smith and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Secret Origins of Comics Studies, today’s leading comics scholars turn back a page to reveal the founding figures dedicated to understanding comics art. Edited by comics scholars Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan, this collection provides an in-depth study of the individuals and institutions that have created and shaped the field of Comics Studies over the past 75 years. From Coulton Waugh to Wolfgang Fuchs, these influential historians, educators, and theorists produced the foundational work and built the institutions that inspired the recent surge in scholarly work in this dynamic, interdisciplinary field. Sometimes scorned, often underappreciated, these visionaries established a path followed by subsequent generations of scholars in literary studies, communication, art history, the social sciences, and more. Giving not only credit where credit is due, this volume both offers an authoritative account of the history of Comics Studies and also helps move the field forward by being a valuable resource for creating graduate student reading lists and the first stop for anyone writing a comics-related literature review.

Comics Studies Here and Now

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351015257
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

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Download or read book Comics Studies Here and Now written by Frederick Luis Aldama and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-05-15 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward, some in their re-diggings into comics history and others by analyzing comics—and all its transmedial and fan-fictional offshoots—on its own terms. Comics Studies stakes the flag of our arrival—the arrival of comics studies as a full-fledged discipline that today and tomorrow excavates, examines, discusses, and analyzes all aspects that make up the resplendent planetary republic of comics. This collection of scholarly essays is a testament to the fact that comic book studies have come into their own as an academic discipline; simply and powerfully moving comic studies forward with their critical excavations and theoretical formulas based on the common sense understanding that comics add to the world as unique, transformative cultural phenomena.

Keywords for Comics Studies

Author : Ramzi Fawaz
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 1479825433
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (798 download)

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Download or read book Keywords for Comics Studies written by Ramzi Fawaz and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2021-06-08 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies Across more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen, and Love and Rockets. This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field’s most compelling and imaginative ideas.

A Comics Studies Reader

Author : Jeet Heer
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
ISBN 13 : 1604731095
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book A Comics Studies Reader written by Jeet Heer and published by Univ. Press of Mississippi. This book was released on 2009 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A survey of the best scholars writing on the form, craft, history, and significance of the comics

The Cambridge Companion to Comics

Author : Maaheen Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009255681
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book The Cambridge Companion to Comics written by Maaheen Ahmed and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-08-31 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Interweaving history and theory, this book unpacks the complexity of comics, covering formal, critical and institutional dimensions.

Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love

Author : Peter Admirand
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000750337
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love written by Peter Admirand and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2022-12-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness and seeking justice; and the importance of diversity and religious pluralism. Through close interdisciplinary reading and personal narratives, the author delves into the complex worlds of Y and Saga in search of an ethics, meaning, and a path resonant with real-world struggles. Reading these works side by side, the analysis draws parallels and seeks common themes around the four central ideas of seeking and making meaning in a meaningless world; love and parenting through oppression and grief; peacefulness when surrounded by violence; and the perils and hopes of diversity and communion. This timely and thoughtful study will resonate with scholars and students of comic studies, media and cultural studies, philosophy, theology, literature, psychology, and popular culture studies.

Biopolitics and Structure in Legal Education

Author : Luca Siliquini-Cinelli
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000876225
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (8 download)

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Download or read book Biopolitics and Structure in Legal Education written by Luca Siliquini-Cinelli and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-06-30 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Taking up the study of legal education in distinctly biopolitical terms, this book provides a critical and political analysis of structure in the law school. Legal education concerns the complex pathways by which an individual becomes a lawyer, making the journey from lay-person to expert, from student to practitioner. To pose the idea of a biopolitics of legal education is not only to recognise the tensions surrounding this journey, but also to recognise that legal education is a key site in which the subject engages, and is engaged by, a particular structure—and here the particular structure of the law school. This book explores that structure by addressing the characteristics of the biopolitical orders engaged in legal education, including: understanding the lawyer as a commodity, unpicking the force relations in legal education, examining the ways codes of conduct in higher education impact academic freedom, as well as putting the distinctly Western structures of legal learning within a wider context. Assembling original, field-defining essays by both leading international scholars and emerging researchers, it constitutes an indispensable resource in legal education research and scholarship that will appeal to legal academics everywhere.

Art History for Comics

Author : Ian Horton
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031073533
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Art History for Comics written by Ian Horton and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-20 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book looks at comics through the lens of Art History, examining the past influence of art-historical methodologies on comics scholarship to scope how they can be applied to Comics Studies in the present and future. It unearths how early comics scholars deployed art-historical approaches, including stylistic analysis, iconography, Cultural History and the social history of art, and proposes how such methodologies, updated in light of disciplinary developments within Art History, could be usefully adopted in the study of comics today. Through a series of indicative case studies of British and American comics like Eagle, The Mighty Thor, 2000AD, Escape and Heartbreak Hotel, it argues that art-historical methods better address overlooked aspects of visual and material form. Bringing Art History back into the interdisciplinary nexus of comics scholarship raises some fundamental questions about the categories, frameworks and values underlying contemporary Comics Studies.

UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics

Author : Nicola Streeten
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030363007
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (33 download)

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Download or read book UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics written by Nicola Streeten and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2020-01-28 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book demonstrates that since the 1970s, British feminist cartoons and comics have played an important part in the Women’s Movement in Britain. A key component of this has been humour. This aspect of feminist history in Britain has not previously been documented. The book questions why and how British feminists have used humour in comics form to present serious political messages. It also interrogates what the implications have been for the development of feminist cartoons and for the popularisation of feminism in Britain. The work responds to recent North American feminist comics scholarship that concentrates on North American autobiographical comics of trauma by women. This book highlights the relevance of humour and provides a comparative British perspective. The time frame is 1970 to 2019, chosen as representative of a significant historical period for the development of feminist cartoon and comics activity and of feminist theory and practice. Research methods include archival data collection, complemented by interviews with selected cartoonists. Visual and textual analysis of specific examples draws on literature from humour theory, comics studies and feminist theory. Examples are also considered as responses to the economic, social and political contexts in which they were produced.

Teaching with Comics

Author : Robert Aman
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031051947
Total Pages : 328 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Teaching with Comics written by Robert Aman and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2022-09-03 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited collection analyses the use of comics in primary and secondary education. The editors and contributors draw together global research to examine how comics can be used for critical inquiry within schools, and how they can be used within specific disciplines. As comics are beginning to be recognised more widely as an important resource for teaching, with a huge breadth of topics and styles, this interdisciplinary book unites a variety of research to analyse how learning is 'done' with and through comics. The book will be of interest to educational practitioners and school teachers, as well as students and scholars of comic studies, education and social sciences more broadly.

Graphic Embodiments

Author : Lisa DeTora
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9462702675
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (627 download)

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Download or read book Graphic Embodiments written by Lisa DeTora and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2021-03-08 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Comics and other graphic narratives powerfully represent embodied experiences that are difficult to express in language. A group of authors from various countries and disciplines explore the unique capacity of graphic narratives to represent human embodiment as well as the relation of human bodies to the worlds they inhabit. Using works from illustrated scientific texts to contemporary comics across national traditions, we discover how the graphic narrative can shed new light on everyday experiences. Essays examine topics that are easily recognized as anchored in the body as well as experiences like migration and concepts like environmental degradation and compassion that emanate from or impact on our embodied states. Graphic Embodiments is of interest to scholars and students across various interdisciplinary fields including comics studies, gender and sexuality studies, visual and cultural studies, disability studies and health and medical humanities.