Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels – serie
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Phantom Comics and the New Left
A Socialist Superhero
Av Robert Aman
Inbunden, 2020
607 kr
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This book is about the Phantom in Sweden, or, more correctly, about Sweden in the Phantom. Robert Aman uncovers how a peripheral American superhero – created in 1936 by Lee Falk – that has been accused of both racism and sexism has become a national concern in a country that several researchers …
Documentary Comics
Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age
Inbunden, 2015
1011 kr
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Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to recording technologies, and instead engages an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, …
Theory of Narrative Drawing
Inbunden, 2017
1580 kr
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This book offers an original new conception of visual story telling, proposing that drawing, depictive drawing and narrative drawing are produced in an encompassing dialogic system of embodied social behavior. It refigures the existing descriptions of visual story-telling that pause with …
Cultures of Comics Work
Av Casey Brienza, Paddy Johnston
Inbunden, 2016
1560 kr
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This anthology explores tensions between the individualistic artistic ideals and the collective industrial realities of contemporary cultural production with eighteen all-new chapters presenting pioneering empirical research on the complexities and controversies of comics work.Art Spiegelman. Alan …
Greatest Comic Book of All Time
Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books
Inbunden, 2016
698 kr
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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.
Kid Comic Strips
A Genre Across Four Countries
Av Ian Gordon
Inbunden, 2016
665 kr
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This book looks at the humor that artists and editors believed would have appeal in four different countries. Ian Gordon explains how similar humor played out in comic strips across different cultures and humor styles. By examining Skippy and Ginger Meggs, the book shows a good deal of similarities …
Posthuman Body in Superhero Comics
Human, Superhuman, Transhuman, Post/Human
Inbunden, 2016
1560 kr
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This book examines the concepts of Post/Humanism and Transhumanism as depicted in superhero comics. Recent decades have seen mainstream audiences embrace the comic book Superhuman. Meanwhile there has been increasing concern surrounding human enhancement technologies, with the techno-scientific …
Documentary Comics
Graphic Truth-Telling in a Skeptical Age
Häftad, 2015
886 kr
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Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Examining comics as documentary, this book challenges the persistent assumption that ties documentary to recording technologies, and instead engages an understanding of the category in terms of narrative, …
Cultures of Comics Work
Av Casey Brienza, Paddy Johnston
Häftad, 2026
1212 kr
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This anthology explores tensions between the individualistic artistic ideals and the collective industrial realities of contemporary cultural production with eighteen all-new chapters presenting pioneering empirical research on the complexities and controversies of comics work.Art Spiegelman. Alan …
Representation of Genocide in Graphic Novels
Considering the Role of Kitsch
Inbunden, 2019
961 kr
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This book mobilises the concept of kitsch to investigate the tensions around the representation of genocide in international graphic novels that focus on the Holocaust and the genocides in Armenia, Rwanda, and Bosnia. In response to the predominantly negative readings of kitsch as meaningless or …
Comics Memory
Archives and Styles
Av Maaheen Ahmed, Benoît Crucifix
Häftad, 2019
1643 kr
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Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact—especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives—in their physical and metaphorical …
Comics as Communication
A Functional Approach
Inbunden, 2019
1207 kr
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This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an approach that is compatible with similar descriptions of linguistic and multimodal communication.The …
Comics as Communication
A Functional Approach
Häftad, 2020
1207 kr
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This book explores how comics function to make meanings in the manner of a language. It outlines a framework for describing the resources and practices of comics creation and readership, using an approach that is compatible with similar descriptions of linguistic and multimodal communication.The …
Graphic Lives of Fathers
Memory, Representation, and Fatherhood in North American Autobiographical Comics
Inbunden, 2020
1083 kr
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This book explores the representation of fatherhood in contemporary North American autobiographical comics that depict paternal conduct from the post-war period up to the present. It offers equal space to autobiographical comics penned by daughters who represent their fathers’ complicated and often …
Graphic Lives of Fathers
Memory, Representation, and Fatherhood in North American Autobiographical Comics
Häftad, 2021
1083 kr
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This book explores the representation of fatherhood in contemporary North American autobiographical comics that depict paternal conduct from the post-war period up to the present. It offers equal space to autobiographical comics penned by daughters who represent their fathers’ complicated and often …
UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics
A Critical Survey
Inbunden, 2020
1083 kr
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This book demonstrates that since the 1970s, British feminist cartoons and comics have played an important part in the Women’s Movement in Britain. A key component of this has been humour. This aspect of feminist history in Britain has not previously been documented. The book questions why and how …
UK Feminist Cartoons and Comics
A Critical Survey
Häftad, 2021
1083 kr
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This book demonstrates that since the 1970s, British feminist cartoons and comics have played an important part in the Women’s Movement in Britain. A key component of this has been humour. This aspect of feminist history in Britain has not previously been documented. The book questions why and how …
Documenting Trauma in Comics
Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
Av Dominic Davies, Candida Rifkind
Inbunden, 2020
1207 kr
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Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their …
Documenting Trauma in Comics
Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage
Av Dominic Davies, Candida Rifkind
Häftad, 2021
1207 kr
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Why are so many contemporary comics and graphic narratives written as memoirs or documentaries of traumatic events? Is there a specific relationship between the comics form and the documentation and reportage of trauma? How do the interpretive demands made on comics readers shape their …
Phantom Comics and the New Left
A Socialist Superhero
Av Robert Aman
Häftad, 2021
607 kr
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This book is about the Phantom in Sweden, or, more correctly, about Sweden in the Phantom. Robert Aman uncovers how a peripheral American superhero – created in 1936 by Lee Falk – that has been accused of both racism and sexism has become a national concern in a country that several researchers …
Understanding Genres in Comics
Inbunden, 2020
784 kr
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This book offers a theoretical framework and numerous cases studies – from early comic books to contemporary graphic novels – to understand the uses of genres in comics. It begins with the assumption that genre is both frequently used and undertheorized in the medium. Drawing from existing genre …
Understanding Genres in Comics
Häftad, 2021
784 kr
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This book offers a theoretical framework and numerous cases studies – from early comic books to contemporary graphic novels – to understand the uses of genres in comics. It begins with the assumption that genre is both frequently used and undertheorized in the medium. Drawing from existing genre …
Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics
Inbunden, 2020
679 kr
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This book explores some of the less frequently questioned ideas which underpin comics creation and criticism. “Mise en scène” is a term which refers to the way in which visual elements work together to create meaning in comics. It is a term that comics have borrowed from cinema, which borrowed it …
Mise en scène, Acting, and Space in Comics
Häftad, 2021
679 kr
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This book explores some of the less frequently questioned ideas which underpin comics creation and criticism. “Mise en scène” is a term which refers to the way in which visual elements work together to create meaning in comics. It is a term that comics have borrowed from cinema, which borrowed it …
Spanish Graphic Narratives
Recent Developments in Sequential Art
Av Collin McKinney, David F. Richter
Inbunden, 2020
1560 kr
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Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain’s rich literary history, contentious Civil War (1936–39), oppressive Francisco Franco regime (1939–75), …
Spanish Graphic Narratives
Recent Developments in Sequential Art
Av Collin McKinney, David F. Richter
Häftad, 2021
1560 kr
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Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain’s rich literary history, contentious Civil War (1936–39), oppressive Francisco Franco regime (1939–75), …
Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics
Inbunden, 2021
1098 kr
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Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding. An analog print phenomenon in an era shaped by digitalization, documentary comics formulates a distinct counterapproach to conventional journalism. In …
Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics
Häftad, 2022
911 kr
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Frames and Framing in Documentary Comics explores how graphic narratives reframe global crises while also interrogating practices of fact-finding. An analog print phenomenon in an era shaped by digitalization, documentary comics formulates a distinct counterapproach to conventional journalism. In …
Key Terms in Comics Studies
Av Erin La Cour, Simon Grennan m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
356 kr
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Key Terms in Comics Studies is a glossary of over 300 terms and critical concepts currently used in the Anglophone academic study of comics, including those from other languages that are currently adopted and used in English.Written by nearly 100 international and contemporary experts from the …
Comic Strip Art of Jack B. Yeats
Inbunden, 2021
1018 kr
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This monograph seeks to recover and assess the critically neglected comic strip work produced by the Irish painter Jack B. Yeats for various British publications, including Comic Cuts, The Funny Wonder, and Puck, between 1893 and 1917. It situates the work in relation to late-Victorian and …
