| Description |
xviii, 310 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction: Should we discipline the reading of comics? / Henry Jenkins -- Wordless comics: the imaginative appeal of Peter Kuper's The system / David Beronä -- Comics modes: caricature and illustration in the Crumb family's Dirty laundry / Joseph Witek -- Image functions: shape and color as hermeneutic images in Asterios Polyp / Randy Duncan -- Time and narrative: unity and discontinuity in The invisibles / Marc Singer -- Mise en scène and framing: visual storytelling in Lone wolf and cub / Pascal Lefèvre -- Abstract form: sequential dynamism and iconostasis in abstract comics and Steve Ditko's Amazing Spider-Man / Andrei Molotiu -- Philosophy: "the triumph of the human spirit" in X-Men / Jeff McLaughlin -- Comics journalism: drawing on words to picture the past in Safe area Goražde / Amy Kiste Nyberg -- Propaganda: the pleasures of persuasion in Captain America / Christopher Murray -- Political economy: manipulating demand and "The death of Superman" / Mark Rogers -- Culture of consumption: commodification through Superman: return to Krypton / Ian Gordon -- Ethnography of production: editor Axel Alonso and the sale of ideas / Stanford W. Carpenter -- Auteur criticism: the re-visionary works of Alan Moore / Matthew J. Smith -- History: discovering the story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster / Brad J. Ricca -- Genre: reconstructing the superhero in All star Superman / Peter Coogan -- Ideology: the construction of race and history in Tintin in the Congo / Leonard Rifas -- Feminism: second-wave feminism in the pages of Lois Lane / Jennifer K. Stuller -- Intertextuality: superrealist intertextualities in Max's Bardín / Ana Merino, translated by Elizabeth Polli -- Cultural studies: British girls' comics, readers and memories / Mel Gibson -- Ethnography: wearing one's fandom / Jeffrey A. Brown -- Critical ethnography: the comics shop as cultural clubhouse / Brian Swafford. |
| Provenance |
Gift of Paul and Mary Haas. |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism.
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Comic books, strips, etc. |
| Added Author |
Smith, Matthew J., 1971-
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Duncan, Randy, 1958-
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| ISBN |
9780415885546 hardcover |
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041588554X hardcover |
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9780415885553 paperback |
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0415885558 paperback |
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9780203839454 e-book |
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0203839455 e-book |
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