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Out Of The Gutters - Obscenity, Censorship, And Transgression In American Comics

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 How comics and graphic novels use obscenity and other taboos to shed light on important issues.
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Redrawing The Western - A History Of American Comics And The Mythic West

by William Grady

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 Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which the genre was forged and prospered in a range of popular media, Grady engages with several key historical timeframes.
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Searching For Feminist Superheroes - Gender, Sexuality, And Race In Marvel Comics

by Sam Langsdale

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 Searching for Feminist Superheroes recognizes that female-led superhero comics, with diverse casts of characters, exist on the margins of the mainstream superhero genre. But rather than focusing on these stories as marginalized, Sam Langsdaleâ€™s work on heroes locates the margins as a site of innovation and productivity.
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Super Bodies - Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, And Narrative Impact

by Jeffrey A. Brown

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 Gives overdue credit to the artwork, which is not only a principal source of the appeal of comic books but also central to the values these works embody. Jeffrey A. Brown assesses six distinct approaches to superhero illustrationâ€"idealism, realism, cute, retro, grotesque, and noirâ€"examining how each visually represents the superhero as a symbolic construct freighted with meaning.
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Supersex - Sexuality, Fantasy, And The Superhero

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 From Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both. Peppard and her contributors present superhero sexuality as both dangerously exciting and excitingly dangerous, encapsulating the superhero genreâ€™s worst impulses and its most productively rebellious ones.
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The Art Of Pere Joan - Space, Landscape, And Comics Form

by Benjamin Fraser

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 A close reading of the innovative, distinctive vision of Pere Joan, who has pushed boundaries in Spain's comics scene for more than four decades and stoked a new understanding of the nature of reading comics.
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Quinceanera Style - Social Belonging And Latinx Consumer Identities

by Rachel Valentina Gonzalez

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 A dynamic study of social negotiation and consumerism in the coming-of-age quinceaÃ±era celebration and the impact of normalizing spectacles of luxury.
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Engendering Revolution - Women, Unpaid Labor, And Maternalism In Bolivarian Venezuela

by Rachel Elfenbein

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 The first in-depth study of the overlooked yet pivotal role played by maternalism, poor and working-class womenâ€™s unpaid labor, and unequal gender power relations in propelling and sustaining Venezuelaâ€™s Bolivarian revolution.
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Breaking The Frames - Populism And Prestige In Comics Studies

by Marc Singer

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 Challenging common critical practices and offering new interpretations of canonical texts by Marjane Satrapi, Alan Moore, Kyle Baker, Chris Ware, and others, this volume offers the first major critique of the field of comics studies.
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William Gedney - Only The Lonely, 1955â€“1984

by Gilles Mora, Lisa Mccarty e Margaret Sartor

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 The first book on photographer William Gedney in nearly twenty years, this retrospective volume offers the only comprehensive survey of his work, including his acclaimed series on eastern Kentucky, Haight-Ashbury, India, gay pride parades, and night scene
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The Mexican Mahjar - Transnational Maronites, Jews, And Arabs Under The French Mandate

by Camila Pastor

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 Drawing extensively on French colonial archives and historical ethnography, this book offers the first global history of Middle Eastern migrations to Latin America and the creation of Arab, French, and Mexican transnational networks.
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Evolving Images - Jewish Latin American Cinema

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 With critical essays by leading scholars from Latin America, the United States, Europe, and Israel, this is the first volume devoted to Jewish filmmaking and films with Jewish themes and characters in Latin America.
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Make Ours Marvel - Media Convergence And A Comics Universe

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 Tracing the rise of the Marvel Comics brand from the creation of the Fantastic Four to the development of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this volume of original essays considers how a comic book publisher became a transmedia empire.
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Picturing Childhood - Youth In Transnational Comics

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 Uniting the perspectives of comics studies and childhood studies, this pioneering collection is the first book devoted to representations of childhood in iconic US and international comics from the 1930s to the present.
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Redrawing The Western - A History Of American Comics And The Mythic West

by William Grady

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The Look Of The 1960s - Barbarella And Pulp Pop Comics

by Hugo Frey e Jan Baetens

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The Claremont Run - Subverting Gender In The X-Men

by J. Andrew Deman

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 A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics authorâ€™s subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time. The Claremont Run compares several hundred issues of Uncanny X-Men with a thousand other Marvel comics to provide a comprehensive account of Claremontâ€™s sophisticated and progressive gender politics.
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Latin American Comics In The Twenty-First Century - Transgressing The Frame

by James Scorer

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 How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.
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Black Feminist Constellations - Dialogue And Translation Across The Americas

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 Focused on and written by Black women of the southern Americas, the original works composing this volume make legible the epistemologies that sustain radical scholarship, art, and political organizing by Black women everywhere.
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Pink Gold - Women, Shrimp, And Work In Mexico

by Maria L. Cruz-Torres

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 A rich, long-term ethnography of women seafood traders in Mexico.
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The Claremont Run - Subverting Gender In The X-Men

by J. Andrew Deman

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 A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics authorâ€™s subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time. J. Andrew Demanâ€™s investigation pairs close reading and quantitative analysis to examine gender representation, content, characters, and story structure.
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Art_Latin_America - Against The Survey

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 Using the holdings of the Davis Museum at Wellesley College as a case study, this illustrated volume reconsiders the contours of â€œLatin American Artâ€ and launches a rich, broad, gem of a collection into the public sphere for the first time.
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All New, All Different? - A History Of Race And The American Superhero

by Allan W. Austin e Patrick L. Hamilton

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 An eye-opening exploration of the relationship between racial attitudes and the evolution of the superhero in America, from Supermanâ€™s debut in 1938 through the Civil Rights era and contemporary reinventions.
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Marfa - The Transformation Of A West Texas Town

by Kathleen Shafer

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 This inviting book explores how small-town Marfa, Texas, has become a landmark arts destination and tourist attraction, despiteâ€"and because ofâ€"its remote location in the immense Chihuahuan desert.
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