Comics as a Nexus of Cultures

Mark Berninger teaches in the department of English at Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany. He has published widely on contemporary drama and comics. Jochen Ecke is a lecturer at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. He has published extensively on popular culture, particularly U.S. and British mainstream comic books. Gideon Haberkorn is in the department of English and Linguistics British Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat in Mainz, Germany. He has published a number of articles on popular culture topics.

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• Table of ContentsIntroduction      INTERMEDIAL1. Spatializing the Movie Screen: How Mainstream Cinema Is Catching Up on the Formal Potentialities of the Comic Book Page      Jochen Ecke2. The Marvel Universe on Screen: A New Wave of Superhero Movies?      Andreas Rauscher3. From Trauma Victim to Terrorist: Redefining Superheroes in Post–9/11 Hollywood      Dan A. Hassler-Forest4. “Picture This”: Disease and Autobiographic Narration in the Graphic Novels of David B and Julie Doucet      Jonas Engelmann5. Novel-Based Comics      Paul Ferstl6. In the Art of the Beholder: Comics as Political Journalism      Dirk VanderbekeINTERNATIONAL7. The Carrefour of Practice: Québec BD in Transition      Michel Hardy-Vallée8. The Use of Allusion in Apitz and Kunkel’s Karl Comics      Sandra Martina Schwab9. Cultural Specifics of a Scottish Comic: Oor Wullie      Anne Hoyer10. Memento Mori: A Portuguese Style of Melancholy      Mario Gomes and Jan Peuckert11. Otherness and the European as Villain and Antihero in American Comics      Georg Drennig12. 2000AD: Understanding the “British Invasion” of American Comics      Ben Little13. Whatever Happened to All the Heroes? British Perspectives on Superheroes      Karin Kukkonen and Anja Müller-Wood14. A Cornerstone of Turkish Fantastic Films: From Flash Gordon to Baytekin      Meral Özçınar15. From Capes to Snakes: The Indianization of the American Superhero      Suchitra Mathur16. The Roving Eye Meets Traveling Pictures: The Field of Vision and the Global Rise of Adult Manga      Holger Briel17. Kawaii vs. Rorikon: The Reinvention of the Term Lolita in Modern Japanese Manga      Dinah Zank18. Mangascape Germany: Comics as Intercultural Neutral Ground      Paul M. MaloneINTERDISCIPLINARY19. Workshop I: Toward a Toolbox of Comics Studies      Karin Kukkonen and Gideon Haberkorn20. Workshop II: Comics in School      Mark Berninger21. Workshop III: Teaching Comics and Literary Studies—Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess’ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”      Mark Berninger22. Workshop IV: Teaching Comics and Film Studies—Ang Lee’s The Hulk (USA 2003)      Andreas Rauscher23. Comic Linguistics: Comics and Cartoons in Academic Teaching      Christina SanchezAbout the Contributors      Index