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Authorizing Superhero Comics - On The Evolution Of A Popular Serial Genre

by Daniel Stein

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 Authorizing Superhero Comics examines the comic book superhero as a lasting phenomenon of US popular serial storytelling. Moving beyond linear- or creator-centered models of genre development, Daniel Stein identifies authorization conflicts that have driven the genre's evolution from the late 1930s to the present. These conflicts include paratextually mediated exchanges between officially authorized comic book producers and, alternatively, authorized fans that trouble the distinction between production and its reception; storyworld-building processes that subsume producers and fans into a collective rooted in a common style; parodies that ensure the genre's longevity by deflating criticism through self-reflexive humor; and collecting and archiving as forms of memory management that align the genre's past with the demands of the present. Taking seriously the serial agencies of the superhero comic book as a material artifact with a particular mediality, the study analyzes letter columns, editorial commentary, fanzines, encyclopedias, and other forms of comic book communication as critical frameworks for understanding the evolution of the genre-assessing rarely covered archival sources alongside some of the most treasured figures from the superhero's multi-decade history, from Batman and Spider-Man to Wonder Woman and Captain America.
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Redrawing French Empire In Comics

by Mark Mckinney

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 <div> <div><i>Redrawing French Empire in Comics</i> by Mark McKinney investigates how comics have represented the colonization and liberation of Algeria and Indochina. It focuses on the conquest and colonization of Algeria (from 1830), the French war in Indochina (1946-1954), and the Algerian War (1954-1962). Imperialism and colonialism already featured prominently in nineteenth-century French-language comics and cartoons by Töpffer, Cham, and Petit. As society has evolved, so has the popular representation of those historical forces. French torture of Algerians during the Algerian War, once taboo, now features prominently in comics, especially since 2000, when debate on the subject was reignited in the media and the courts. The increasingly explicit and spectacular treatment in comics of the more violent and lurid aspects of colonial history and ideology is partly due to the post-1968 growth of an adult comics production and market. For example, the appearance of erotic and exotic, feminized images of Indochina in French comics in the 1980s indicated that colonial nostalgia for French Indochina had become fashionable in popular culture. <i>Redrawing French Empire in Comics</i> shows how contemporary cartoonists such as Alagbé, Baloup, Boudjellal, Ferrandez, and Sfar have staked out different, sometimes conflicting, positions on French colonial history.</div> </div>
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Between Pen And Pixel - Comics, Materiality, And The Book Of The Future

by Kashtan Aaron Kashtan

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 <div>2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best Academic/Scholarly Work<br><br>In <i>Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future</i>, Aaron Kashtan argues that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to focus on text-based literature, particularly fiction. However, because comics make the effects of materiality visible, they offer a clearer demonstration than prose fiction of how the rise of digital reading platforms transforms the reading experience. Comics help us see the effects of alterations in features such as publication design and typography, whereas in print literature, such transformations often go unnoticed.<br> <br>With case studies of the work of Alison Bechdel, Matt Kindt, Lynda Barry, Carla Speed McNeil, Chris Ware, and Randall Munroe, Kashtan examines print comics that critique digital technology, comics that are remediated from print to digital and vice versa, and comics that combine print and digital functionality. Kashtan argues that comics are adapting to the rise of digital reading technologies more effectively than print literature has yet done. Therefore, looking at comics gives us a preview of what the future of the book looks like. Ultimately, <i>Between Pen and Pixel</i> argues that as print literature becomes more sensitive to issues of materiality and mediacy, print books will increasingly start to resemble to comic books. </div>
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Ethics In The Gutter - Empathy And Historical Fiction In Comics

by Polak Kate Polak

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 <div><i>Ethics in the Gutter: Empathy and Historical Fiction in Comics</i> explores an often-overlooked genre of graphic narratives: those that fictionalize historical realities. While autographics, particularly those that place the memoirist in the context of larger cultural conversations, have been the objects of sustained study, fictional graphic narratives that—as Linda Hutcheon has put it—both "enshrine and question" history are also an important area of study. By bringing narratology and psychological theory to bear on a range of graphic narratives, Kate Polak seeks to question how the form utilizes point of view and the gutter as ethical tools that shape the reader’s empathetic reactions to the content. <br><br>This book’s most important questions surround how we receive and interpret representations of history, considering the ways in which what we think we know about historical atrocities can be at odds with the convoluted circumstances surrounding violence. Beginning with a new look at <i>Watchmen</i>, and including examinations of such popular series as <i>Scalped </i>and <i>Hellblazer</i> as well as <i>Bayou</i> and <i>Deogratias</i>, the book questions how graphic narratives create an alternative route by which to understand large-scale violence. <i>Ethics in the Gutter</i> explores how graphic narrative representations of violence can teach readers about the possibilities and limitations of empathy and ethics.</div>
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Drawing The Line - Comics Studies And Inks, 1994-1997

by Caswell Lucy Shelton Caswell e Gardner Jared Gardner

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 <div><i>Drawing the Line: Comics Studies and </i>INKS,<i> 1994-1997</i> collects some of the most important essays from <i>INKS: Cartoon and Comic Art Studies</i>, the first peer-reviewed scholarly journal devoted exclusively to comics studies. The volume, edited by Lucy Shelton Caswell, the journal’s founding editor, and Jared Gardner, editor of the new <i>Inks: The Journal of the Comics Studies Society</i>, celebrates this foundational moment in the fast-growing field of comics studies and also serves as a call to contemporary scholars to revisit the roads-not-taken mapped out by these scholars and cartoonist critics.<br>Included in the volume are essays by pioneering comics scholars on newspaper comic strips, Japanese manga, Chinese lianhuanhua, comic books, graphic novels, and editorial cartoons, alongside writings and artwork by celebrated cartoonists such as Will Eisner, Oliver Harrington, Charles Schulz, and Frank Stack. This volume serves as an invaluable resource for anyone interested in the history and study of the comics form, visual culture, or the history of journalism.<br> </div>
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Comic Fascism - Ideology, Catholicism, And Americanism In Italian Children'S Periodicals

by Zane Elward

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 <div>Shows how Italian comics reflected the entanglement of conservatives and Catholics with the Fascist project and offers insight into the role of American comics in shaping Italian youth.</div>
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Comic Fascism - Ideology, Catholicism, And Americanism In Italian Children'S Periodicals

by Zane Elward

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 <div>Shows how Italian comics reflected the entanglement of conservatives and Catholics with the Fascist project and offers insight into the role of American comics in shaping Italian youth.</div>
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Constellating Home - Trans And Queer Asian American Rhetorics

by V Jo Hsu

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Comics And Nation - Power, Pop Culture, And Political Transformation In Poland

by Ewa Stanczyk

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Twisted Words - Torture And Liberalism In Imperial Britain

by Katherine Judith Anderson

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Constructing Nineteenth-Century Religion - Literary, Historical, And Religious Studies In Dialogue

by Joshua King

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Resurrection - Comics In Post-Soviet Russia

by Jose Alaniz

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Resurrection - Comics In Post-Soviet Russia

by Jose Alaniz

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Typical Girls - The Rhetoric Of Womanhood In Comic Strips

by Susan E Kirtley

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Comics And The Body - Drawing, Reading, And Vulnerability

by Eszter Szep

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Dark Mirror - African Americans And The Federal Writers' Project

by J J Butts

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Authorizing Superhero Comics - On The Evolution Of A Popular Serial Genre

by Daniel Stein

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Authorizing Superhero Comics - On The Evolution Of A Popular Serial Genre

by Daniel Stein

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Typical Girls - The Rhetoric Of Womanhood In Comic Strips

by Susan E Kirtley

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Comics And The Body - Drawing, Reading, And Vulnerability

by Eszter Szep

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Producing Mass Entertainment - The Serial Life Of The Yellow Kid

by Christina Meyer

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Producing Mass Entertainment - The Serial Life Of The Yellow Kid

by Christina Meyer

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The Mind Of Pope Francis - Jorge Mario Bergoglio'S Intellectual Journey

by Massimo Borghesi

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Thurberville

by Bob Hunter

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