Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

AvBart Beaty,Benjamin Woo

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

Del i serien Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

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Beskrivning

Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a "quality comic book," while other works and creators have been left at the fringes of critical analysis.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-04-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:358 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
Antal sidor:156
Upplaga:2016
Förlag:Palgrave Macmillan
ISBN:9781137561961

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Kulturvetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
Medievetenskap inom Samhälle och politik
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Mer om författaren

Bart Beaty is Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. Among other works, he is the author of Twelve-Cent Archie, Comics Versus Art, and Unpopular Culture.Benjamin Woo is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, Canada. His research examines contemporary geek media cultures, with a particular focus on the producers, institutions, and audiences oriented to comics and graphic novels.

Recensioner i media

“I would unhesitatingly recommend The Greatest Comic Book of All Time as one of the most important recent publications in comics studies. … professional comics scholars of every stripe should read it. … no one has done a better job than Beaty and Woo of showing us just how much bigger our playground could be.” (Ben Saunders, Inks The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Vol. 1 (2), 2017)

Innehållsförteckning

1 What If The Greatest Comic Book of All Time Were….- 2 Maus by Art Spiegelman?.- 3 A Short Story by Robert Crumb?.- 4 A Superhero Story by Jack Kirby?.- 5 Written by Alan Moore?.- 6 The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James.- 7 By Rob Liefeld?.- 8 An Archie Comic?.- 9 Not by a White Man?.- 10 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?.- 11 Dave Sim’s Cerebus?.- 12 Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?.