Author : Sebastian Domsch
Publisher : de Gruyter Mouton
Page : 600 pages
File Size : 35,55 MB
Release : 2018-09-20
Category :
ISBN : 9783110446616
This is the first systematic and exhaustive overview of comics and graphic narratives and will be an indispensable guide for anyone studying this subject, from students to instructors. It covers a wide range of general topics with theoretical chapters that provide surveys of terminological, historical, or medial aspects, genres and themes, as well as the wider contexts in which comics have engaged contemporary culture.
Author : C. Foss
Publisher : Springer
Page : 235 pages
File Size : 47,94 MB
Release : 2016-04-08
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137501111
As there has yet to be any substantial scrutiny of the complex confluences a more sustained dialogue between disability studies and comics studies might suggest, Disability in Comic Books and Graphic Narratives aims through its broad range of approaches and focus points to explore this exciting subject in productive and provocative ways.
Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 44,73 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0190917962
Comic book studies has developed as a solid academic discipline, becoming an increasingly vibrant field in the United States and globally. A growing number of dissertations, monographs, and edited books publish every year on the subject, while world comics represent the fastest-growing sector of publishing. The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies looks at the field systematically, examining the history and evolution of the genre from a global perspective. This includes a discussion of how comic books are built out of shared aesthetic systems such as literature, painting, drawing, photography, and film. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds. In particular, it explores how the term "global comics" has been defined, as well the major movements and trends that will drive the field in the years to come. Each essay will help readers understand comic books as a storytelling form grown within specific communities, and will also show how these forms exist within what can be considered a world system of comics.
Author : Sebastian Domsch
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 649 pages
File Size : 44,58 MB
Release : 2021-07-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 3110446839
Whether one describes them as sequential art, graphic narratives or graphic novels, comics have become a vital part of contemporary culture. Their range of expression contains a tremendous variety of forms, genres and modes − from high to low, from serial entertainment for children to complex works of art. This has led to a growing interest in comics as a field of scholarly analysis, as comics studies has established itself as a major branch of criticism. This handbook combines a systematic survey of theories and concepts developed in the field alongside an overview of the most important contexts and themes and a wealth of close readings of seminal works and authors. It will prove to be an indispensable handbook for a large readership, ranging from researchers and instructors to students and anyone else with a general interest in this fascinating medium.
Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 745 pages
File Size : 46,72 MB
Release : 2020
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0190917946
The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies examines the history and evolution of the visual narrative genre from a global perspective. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds.
Author : Chris Ware
Publisher : Pantheon
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 23,61 MB
Release : 2000-09-12
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0375404538
This first book from Chicago author Chris Ware is a pleasantly-decorated view at a lonely and emotionally-impaired "everyman" (Jimmy Corrigan: The Smartest Kid on Earth), who is provided, at age 36, the opportunity to meet his father for the first time. An improvisatory romance which gingerly deports itself between 1890's Chicago and 1980's small town Michigan, the reader is helped along by thousands of colored illustrations and diagrams, which, when read rapidly in sequence, provide a convincing illusion of life and movement. The bulk of the work is supported by fold-out instructions, an index, paper cut-outs, and a brief apology, all of which concrete to form a rich portrait of a man stunted by a paralyzing fear of being disliked.
Author : Leigh Anne Howard
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 295 pages
File Size : 37,91 MB
Release : 2019-09-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0429561121
Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function. Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium. Informed by the scholarship of Dwight Conquergood and his model for performance praxis, this collection of essays makes links between these seemingly disparate areas of study to open new avenues of research for comics and graphic narratives. An international team of authors offer a detailed analysis of new and classical graphic texts from Britain, Iran, India, and Canada as well as the United States. Performance, Social Construction and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function. Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume encompasses the diversity and variety inherent in the graphic narrative medium. This book will be of interest to students and scholars in the areas of communication, literature, comics studies, performance studies, sociology, languages, English, and gender studies, and anyone with an interest in deepening their acquaintance with and understanding of the potential of graphic narratives.
Author : Robert Petersen
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 298 pages
File Size : 28,28 MB
Release : 2010-11-18
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0313363315
This text examines comics, graphic novels, and manga with a broad, international scope that reveals their conceptual origins in antiquity. Graphic narrative art is a fascinating phenomenon that emerged centuries ago with the expansion of literacy and the publication industry. The earliest example of a repeating comic character dates back to the late 1700s. By following the growth of print technology in Europe and Asia, it is possible to understand how and why artists across cultures developed different strategies for telling stories with pictures. This book is much more than a history of graphic narrative across the globe. It examines broader conceptual developments that preceded the origins of comics and graphic novels; how those ideas have evolved over the last century and a half; how literacy, print technology, and developments in narrative art are interrelated; and the way graphic narratives communicate culturally significant stories. The work of artists such as William Hogarth, J. J. Grandville, Willhem Busch, Frans Masereel, Max Ernst, Saul Steinberg, Henry Darger, and Larry Gonick are discussed or depicted.
Author : Daniel Stein
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 313 pages
File Size : 40,94 MB
Release : 2013-03-28
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1441161465
This book brings together an international group of scholars who chart and analyze the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across national borders in an increasingly interconnected and globalizing world. Exploring the tendencies of graphic narratives - from popular comic book serials and graphic novels to manga - to cross national and cultural boundaries, Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives addresses a previously marginalized area in comics studies. By placing graphic narratives in the global flow of cultural production and reception, the book investigates controversial representations of transnational politics, examines transnational adaptations of superhero characters, and maps many of the translations and transformations that have come to shape contemporary comics culture on a global scale.
Author : Robert S. Petersen
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 14,43 MB
Release : 2010
Category : Comic books, strips, etc / History and criticism
ISBN :
