The rise and reason of comics and graphic literature : critical essays on the form / edited by Joyce Goggin and Dan Hassler-Forest.
Material type: TextPublisher: Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland & Co, [2010]Copyright date: ©2010Description: vi, 238 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 0786442948
- 9780786442942
- 741.59 22
- PN6714 .R57 2010
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741.59 HEL Design humor : the art of graphic wit / | 741.59 LIN Linguistics and the study of comics / | 741.59 PRI Jokes & cartoons / | 741.59 RIS The rise and reason of comics and graphic literature : critical essays on the form / | 741.59 SEC The secret origins of comics studies / | 741.59409049 BEA Unpopular culture : transforming the European comic book in the 1990s / | 741.5941 GIF Victorian comics / |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Origin stories: history and development of the genre. Of gutters and guttersnipes: Hogarth's legacy / Joyce Goggin -- Ridiculous rebellion: George L. Carlson and the recovery of Jingle Jangle Comics / Daniel F. Yezbick -- Suspended in mid-month: serialized storytelling in comics / Daniel Wüllner -- What we talk about when we talk about comics: theory and terminology. Balloonics: the visuals of balloons in comics / Charles Forceville, Tony Veale, and Kurt Feyaerts -- Remediation and the sense of time in graphic narratives / Kai Mikkonen -- Brick by brick: Chris Ware's architecture of the page / Angela Szczepaniak -- Out of the gutter: comics and adaptations. It was the best of two worlds, it was the worst of two worlds: the adaptation of novels in comics and graphic novels / Dirk Vanderbeke -- The 300 controversy: a case study in the politics of adaptation / Dan Hassler-Forest -- Men in tights? The superhero paradigm. The last action hero's swan song: graphic novelty or never-ending story? / Andreas Rauscher -- Extraordinary people: the superhero genre and celebrity culture in The league of extraordinary gentlemen / Jonathan E. Goldman -- Warren Ellis's Planetary: the archaeology of superheroes / Karin Kukkonen -- Drawing history: nonfiction in comics. Reconsidering comics journalism: information and experience in Joe Sacco's Palestine / Benjamin Woo -- Comics, trauma and cultural memory(ies) of 9/11 / Christophe Dony and Caroline van Linthout -- "Be vewy, vewy quiet. We're hunting wippers": a Barthesian analysis of the construction of fact and fiction in Alan Moore and Eddie Campbell's From hell /Julia Round -- Graphic black nationalism: visualizing political narratives in the graphic novel / James Braxton Peterson.
"These 15 essays investigate comic books and graphic novels, beginning with the early development of these media. The essays also place the work in a cultural context, addressing theory and terminology, adaptations of comic books, the superhero genre, and comic books and graphic novels that deal with history and nonfiction"--Provided by publisher.
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