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Openness of Comics

Maaheen Ahmed
Openness of Comics Book PDF

Author : Maaheen Ahmed
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-13
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496805942

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Openness of Comics by Maaheen Ahmed Pdf

Never before have comics seemed so popular or diversified, proliferating across a broad spectrum of genres, experimenting with a variety of techniques, and gaining recognition as a legitimate, rich form of art. Maaheen Ahmed examines this trend by taking up philosopher Umberto Eco's notion of the open work of art, whereby the reader--or listener or viewer, as the case may be--is offered several possibilities of interpretation in a cohesive narrative and aesthetic structure. Ahmed delineates the visual, literary, and other medium-specific features used by comics to form open rather than closed works, methods by which comics generate or limit meaning as well as increase and structure the scope of reading into a work. Ahmed analyzes a diverse group of British, American, and European (Franco-Belgian, German, Finnish) comics. She treats examples from the key genre categories of fictionalized memoirs and biographies, adventure and superhero, noir, black comedy and crime, science fiction and fantasy. Her analyses demonstrate the ways in which comics generate openness by concentrating on the gaps essential to the very medium of comics, the range of meaning ensconced within words and images as well as their interaction with each other. The analyzed comics, extending from famous to lesser known works, include Will Eisner's The Contract with God Trilogy, Jacques Tardi's It Was the War of the Trenches, Hugo Pratt's The Ballad of the Salty Sea, Edmond Baudoin's The Voyage, Grant Morrison and Dave McKean's Arkham Asylum, Neil Gaiman's Sandman series, Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From Hell, Moebius's Arzach, Yslaire's Cloud 99 series, and Jarmo Mäkilä's Taxi Ride to Van Gogh's Ear.

Key Terms in Comics Studies

Erin La Cour,Simon Grennan,Rik Spanjers
Key Terms in Comics Studies Book PDF

Author : Erin La Cour,Simon Grennan,Rik Spanjers
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 391 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2022-01-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783030749743

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Key Terms in Comics Studies by Erin La Cour,Simon Grennan,Rik Spanjers Pdf

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.

A Concise Dictionary of Comics

Nancy Pedri
A Concise Dictionary of Comics Book PDF

Author : Nancy Pedri
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-08
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781496838087

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A Concise Dictionary of Comics by Nancy Pedri Pdf

Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship. A Concise Dictionary of Comics provides clear and informative definitions for each term. It includes twenty-five witty illustrations and pairs most defined terms with references to books, articles, book chapters, and other relevant critical sources. All references are dated and listed in an extensive, up-to-date bibliography of comics scholarship. Each term is also categorized according to type in an index of thematic groupings. This organization serves as a pedagogical aid for teachers and students learning about a specific facet of comics studies and as a research tool for scholars who are unfamiliar with a particular term but know what category it falls into. These features make A Concise Dictionary of Comics especially useful for critics, students, teachers, and researchers, and a vital reference to anyone else who wants to learn more about comics.

Comics and Agency

Vanessa Ossa,Jan-Noël Thon,Lukas R. A. Wilde
Comics and Agency Book PDF

Author : Vanessa Ossa,Jan-Noël Thon,Lukas R. A. Wilde
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2022-11-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110754483

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Comics and Agency by Vanessa Ossa,Jan-Noël Thon,Lukas R. A. Wilde Pdf

This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on comics and related popular multimodal forms (including manga, graphic novels, and cartoons) by focusing on the concept of medial, mediated, and mediating agency. To this end, a theoretically and methodologically diverse set of contributions explores the interrelations between individual, collective, and institutional actors within historical and contemporary comics cultures. Agency is at stake when recipients resist hegemonic readings of multimodal texts. In the same manner, “authorship” can be understood as the attribution of agency of and between various medial instances and roles such as writers, artists, colorists, letterers, or editors, as well as with regard to commercial rights holders such as publishing houses or conglomerates and reviewers or fans. From this perspective, aspects of comics production (authorship and institutionalization) can be related to aspects of comics reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization), including their potential for transmedialization and making contributions to the formation of the public sphere.

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies

Frederick Luis Aldama
The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies Book PDF

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 1009 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-17
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780429559303

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The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies by Frederick Luis Aldama Pdf

The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comic Book Studies is a comprehensive, global, and interdisciplinary examination of the essential relationship between Gender, Sexuality, Comics, and Graphic Novels. A diverse range of international and interdisciplinary scholars take a closer look at how gender and sexuality have been essential in the evolution of comics, and how gender and sexuality in comics demand that we re-frame and re-view comics history. Chapters cover a wide array of intersectional topics including Queer Underground and Alternative comics, Feminist Autobiography, re-drawing disability, Latina testimony, and re-evaluating the critical whiteness and masculinity of superheroes in this first truly global reference text to gender and sexuality in comics. Comics have always been an important place for the radical exploration of feminist and non-binary sexualities and identities, and the growth of non-normative comic book traditions as a field of inquiry makes this an essential text for upper-level undergraduates, postgraduates, and researchers studying Comics Studies, Women’s and Gender Studies, Literary Studies, and Cultural Studies.

The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

Angela Ndalianis
The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero Book PDF

Author : Angela Ndalianis
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 510 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2009-05-07
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781135213930

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The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero by Angela Ndalianis Pdf

Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that consume them, their formulas, conventions, and narrative worlds have altered to follow suit, injecting new, unpredictable and more challenging characterizations that engage ravenous readers who increasingly demand more.

The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood

Alisa Perren,Gregory Steirer
The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood Book PDF

Author : Alisa Perren,Gregory Steirer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 265 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2021-05-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781844579433

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The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood by Alisa Perren,Gregory Steirer Pdf

The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood traces the evolving relationship between the American comic book industry and Hollywood from the launch of X-Men, Spider-Man, and Smallville in the early 2000s through the ascent of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, the Arrowverse, and the Walking Dead Universe in the 2010s. Perren and Steirer illustrate how the American comic book industry simultaneously has functioned throughout the first two decades of the twenty-first century as a relatively self-contained business characterized by its own organizational structures, business models, managerial discourses, production cultures, and professional identities even as it has remained dependent on Hollywood for revenue from IP licensing. The authors' expansive view of the industry includes not only a discussion of the “Big Two,” Marvel/Disney and DC Comics/Time Warner, but also a survey of the larger comics ecosystem. Other key industry players, including independent publishers BOOM! Studios, IDW, and Image, digital distributor ComiXology, and management-production company Circle of Confusion, all receive attention. Drawing from interviews, fieldwork, archival research, and trade analysis, The American Comic Book Industry and Hollywood provides a road map to understanding the operations of the comic book industry while also offering new models for undertaking trans- and inter-industrial analysis.

Comics and Graphic Novels

Julia Round,Rikke Platz Cortsen,Maaheen Ahmed
Comics and Graphic Novels Book PDF

Author : Julia Round,Rikke Platz Cortsen,Maaheen Ahmed
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2022-09-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781350336070

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Comics and Graphic Novels by Julia Round,Rikke Platz Cortsen,Maaheen Ahmed Pdf

Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades. Interdisciplinary and international in its scope, the critical approaches on offer spread across a wide range of strands, from the formal and the ideological to the historical, literary and cultural. Its concise chapters provide accessible introductions to comics methodologies, comics histories and cultures across the world, high-profile creators and titles, insights from audience and fan studies, and important themes and genres, such as autobiography and superheroes. It also surveys the alternative and small press alongside general reference works and textbooks on comics. Each chapter is complemented by list of key reference works.

Comics Memory

Maaheen Ahmed,Benoît Crucifix
Comics Memory Book PDF

Author : Maaheen Ahmed,Benoît Crucifix
Publisher : Springer
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2018-08-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319917467

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Comics Memory by Maaheen Ahmed,Benoît Crucifix Pdf

Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact—especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives—in their physical and metaphorical manifestations—this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.

The Comics of Hergé

Joe Sutliff Sanders
The Comics of Herg Book PDF

Author : Joe Sutliff Sanders
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2016-07-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496807298

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The Comics of Hergé by Joe Sutliff Sanders Pdf

As the creator of Tintin, Hergé (1907-1983) remains one of the most important and influential figures in the history of comics. When Hergé, born Georges Prosper Remi in Belgium, emerged from the controversy surrounding his actions after World War II, his most famous work leapt to international fame and set the standard for European comics. While his style popularized what became known as the "clear line" in cartooning, this edited volume shows how his life and art turned out much more complicated than his method. The book opens with Hergé's aesthetic techniques, including analyses of his efforts to comprehend and represent absence and the rhythm of mundaneness between panels of action. Broad views of his career describe how Hergé navigated changing ideas of air travel, while precise accounts of his life during Nazi occupation explain how the demands of the occupied press transformed his understanding of what a comics page could do. The next section considers a subject with which Hergé was himself consumed: the fraught lines between high and low art. By reading the late masterpieces of the Tintin series, these chapters situate his artistic legacy. A final section considers how the clear line style has been reinterpreted around the world, from contemporary Francophone writers to a Chinese American cartoonist and on to Turkey, where Tintin has been reinvented into something meaningful to an audience Hergé probably never anticipated. Despite the attention already devoted to Hergé, no multi-author critical treatment of his work exists in English, the majority of the scholarship being in French. With contributors from five continents drawing on a variety of critical methods, this volume's range will shape the study of Hergé for many years to come.

Monstrous Imaginaries

Maaheen Ahmed
Monstrous Imaginaries Book PDF

Author : Maaheen Ahmed
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2019-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781496825308

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Monstrous Imaginaries by Maaheen Ahmed Pdf

Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries persist in today’s popular culture. Comics monsters, questioning the distinction between human and monster, self and other, are valuable conduits of Romantic inclinations. Engaging with Romanticism and the many monsters created by Romantic writers and artists such as Mary Shelley, Victor Hugo, and Goya, Ahmed maps the heritage, functions, and effects of monsters in contemporary comics and graphic novels. She highlights the persistence of recurrent Romantic features through monstrous protagonists in English- and French-language comics and draws out their implications. Aspects covered include the dark Romantic predilection for ruins and the sordid, the solitary protagonist and his quest, nostalgia, the prominence of the spectacle as well as excessive emotions, and above all, the monster’s ambiguity and rebelliousness. Ahmed highlights each Romantic theme through close readings of well-known but often overlooked comics, including Enki Bilal's Monstre tetralogy, Jim O'Barr's The Crow, and Emil Ferris’s My Favorite Thing Is Monsters, as well as the iconic comics series Alan Moore's Swamp Thing and Mike Mignola's Hellboy. In blurring the otherness of the monster, these protagonists retain the exaggeration and uncontrollability of all monsters while incorporating Romantic characteristics.

The Best American Comics 2018

Phoebe Gloeckner,Bill Kartalopoulos
The Best American Comics 2018 Book PDF

Author : Phoebe Gloeckner,Bill Kartalopoulos
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2018-10-02
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781328465368

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The Best American Comics 2018 by Phoebe Gloeckner,Bill Kartalopoulos Pdf

“I love comics. Comics is (Comics ARE?) a perfect language, robustly evolving and expanding like any other living language,” writes Phoebe Gloeckner in her Introduction to The Best American Comics 2018. This year’s collection includes work selected from the pages of graphic novels, comic books, periodicals, zines, online, and more, highlighting the kaleidoscopic diversity of the comics language today. Featuring GABRIELLE BELL • TARA BOOTH • GEOF DARROW • GUY DELISLE • EMIL FERRIS • JULIA GFRÖRER • SARAH GLIDDEN • SIMON HANSELMANN • JAIME HERNANDEZ • JULIA JACQUETTE • GARY PANTER • ARIEL SCHRAG, and others

Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics

Lukas Etter
Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics Book PDF

Author : Lukas Etter
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2020-12-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783110693799

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Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics by Lukas Etter Pdf

Distinctive Styles and Authorship in Alternative Comics addresses the benefits and limits of analyses of style in alternative comics. It offers three close readings of works serially published between 1980 and 2018 – Art Spiegelman’s Maus, Alison Bechdel’s Dykes to Watch Out For, and Jason Lutes’ Berlin – and discusses how artistic style may influence the ways in which readers construct authorship.

Part of It

Ariel Schrag
Part of It Book PDF

Author : Ariel Schrag
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 176 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2018-11-13
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781328972460

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Part of It by Ariel Schrag Pdf

Ariel Schrag, a critically-acclaimed memoirist and screenwriter, takes us on a painfully funny tour of her formative years, from her childhood in Berkeley to her mid-twenties in Brooklyn, exploring what it means to connect to others when you don’t yet know who you are—when you want to be “part of it” but the “it” changes daily. We meet hippie babysitters, mean girls, best friends, former friends, prom dates, girlfriends, sex ed students, and far too many LensCrafters sales associates. These frank, irreverent, and honest comics revel in the uncomfortable—occasionally cringe-inducing—moments from our early years that end up wiring us as people. Part of It further cements Ariel Schrag as “one of the best pure storytellers...in any medium” (Comics Journal).

The Meaning of Superhero Comic Books

Terrence R. Wandtke
The Meaning of Superhero Comic Books Book PDF

Author : Terrence R. Wandtke
Publisher : McFarland
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2014-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780786490158

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The Meaning of Superhero Comic Books by Terrence R. Wandtke Pdf

For decades, scholars have been making the connection between the design of the superhero story and the mythology of the ancient folktale. Moving beyond simple comparisons and common explanations, this volume details how the workings of the superhero comics industry and the conventions of the medium have developed a culture like that of traditional epic storytelling. It chronicles the continuation of the oral/traditional culture of the early 20th century superhero industry in the endless variations on Superman and shows how Frederic Wertham's anti-comic crusade in the mid-1950s helped make comics the most countercultural new medium of the 20th century. By revealing how contemporary superhero comics, like Geoff Johns' Green Lantern and Warren Ellis's The Authority, connect traditional aesthetics and postmodern theories, this work explains why the superhero comic book flourishes in the "new traditional" shape of our acutely self-conscious digital age.