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" Critical approaches to comics : "
edited by Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan.
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BL
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628745
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Critical approaches to comics : : theories and methods /\ edited by Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Routledge,, 2012.
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xviii, 310 pages :: illustrations ;; 26 cm
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9780415885546
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: 041588554X
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: 0415885558
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9780203839454
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0203839455
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Contents
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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.
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"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."--Publisher's description.
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Comic books, strips, etc.-- History and criticism.
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| LC Classification
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PN6710.C75 2012
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Smith, Matthew J.,1971-
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Duncan, Randy,1958-
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