Routledge Advances in Comics Studies – serie
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Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative
Av Leigh Anne Howard, Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
Inbunden, 2019
2466 kr
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Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function.Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume …
Superhero Bodies
Identity, Materiality, Transformation
Av Wendy Haslem, Elizabeth MacFarlane m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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Throughout the history of the genre, the superhero has been characterised primarily by physical transformation and physical difference. Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation explores the transformation of the superhero body across multiple media forms including comics, film, …
Superman and Comic Book Brand Continuity
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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Superman and Comic Book Brand Continuity traces the development of comic book continuity through the case study of Superman, examining the character’s own evolution across several media, including comics, radio, television, and film. Superman’s relationship with continuity illustrates a key feature …
Empirical Comics Research
Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods
Av Alexander Dunst, Jochen Laubrock m. fl.
Häftad, 2020
695 kr
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This edited volume brings together work in the field of empirical comics research. Drawing on computer and cognitive science, psychology and art history, linguistics and literary studies, each chapter presents innovative methods and establishes the practical and theoretical motivations for the …
Comics Studies Here and Now
Häftad, 2020
777 kr
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Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward, some in their re-diggings into comics history and others by analyzing comics—and all its …
Urban Comics
Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban studies, offering a decolonisation and reconfiguration of both of these already interdisciplinary fields. With chapter-length discussions …
Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity
The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus
Häftad, 2020
710 kr
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Concentrating primarily on contemporary depictions of Batman in the comic books, this book analyzes why Batman is so immensely popular right now in America and globally, and how the fictional Dark Knight reveals both new cultural concerns and longstanding beliefs about American values. The …
Vertigo Comics
British Creators, US Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint
Inbunden, 2022
2904 kr
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This book explores the so-called "British Invasion" of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s.Focusing on British creators within Vertigo, this study traces the evolution of the line from its creation …
Vertigo Comics
British Creators, US Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint
Häftad, 2024
749 kr
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This book explores the so-called "British Invasion" of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s.Focusing on British creators within Vertigo, this study traces the evolution of the line from its creation …
Immigrants and Comics
Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis
Häftad, 2023
713 kr
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Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Nhora Lucía …
Modern Superhero in Film and Television
Popular Genre and American Culture
Häftad, 2019
695 kr
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Hollywood’s live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense popularity reveals deep cultural concerns about …
Narratology of Comic Art
Av Kai Mikkonen
Häftad, 2019
917 kr
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By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition. This involves not just the exploration of those properties in comics that can be …
Superman and Comic Book Brand Continuity
Inbunden, 2018
2525 kr
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Superman and Comic Book Brand Continuity traces the development of comic book continuity through the case study of Superman, examining the character’s own evolution across several media, including comics, radio, television, and film. Superman’s relationship with continuity illustrates a key feature …
Reading Art Spiegelman
Av Philip Smith
Häftad, 2018
827 kr
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The horror of the Holocaust lies not only in its brutality but in its scale and logistics; it depended upon the machinery and logic of a rational, industrialised, and empirically organised modern society. The central thesis of this book is that Art Spiegelman’s comics all identify deeply-rooted …
Superheroes and Excess
A Philosophical Adventure
Av Jamie Brassett, Richard Reynolds
Häftad, 2024
713 kr
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Finding the superhero genre in need of further investigation from philosophical standpoints that value excess as a creative drive, rather than denigrate it as a problem to be resolved, this book opens up discussions that highlight different approaches to ‘the creative excess of being’ as expressed …
Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives
Young Lives in Crisis
Av María Porras Sánchez, Gerardo Vilches
Inbunden, 2022
2904 kr
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This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters devote attention to the expression and representation of precarious subjectivities, as well as to the …
Precarious Youth in Contemporary Graphic Narratives
Young Lives in Crisis
Av María Porras Sánchez, Gerardo Vilches
Häftad, 2024
697 kr
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This volume explores comics as examples of moral outrage in the face of a reality in which precariousness has become an inherent part of young lives. Taking a thematic approach, the chapters devote attention to the expression and representation of precarious subjectivities, as well as to the …
Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative
Av Leigh Anne Howard, Susanna Hoeness-Krupsaw
Häftad, 2021
716 kr
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Performativity, Cultural Construction, and the Graphic Narrative draws on performance studies scholarship to understand the social impact of graphic novels and their sociopolitical function.Addressing issues of race, gender, ethnicity, race, war, mental illness, and the environment, the volume …
Representing Acts of Violence in Comics
Av Nina Mickwitz, Ian Horton m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
695 kr
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This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts.Representing Acts of Violence in Comics raises questions about depiction and the act of showing violence, and discusses the ways in which …
Contexts of Violence in Comics
Av Ian Hague, Ian Horton m. fl.
Häftad, 2021
695 kr
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This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts. Contexts of Violence in Comics asks the reader to consider the ways in which violence and its representations may be enabled or restricted by …
Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books
Red Ink in the Gutter
Av John Darowski, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Inbunden, 2022
2904 kr
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This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such …
Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books
Red Ink in the Gutter
Av John Darowski, Fernando Gabriel Pagnoni Berns
Häftad, 2024
713 kr
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This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space.Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such …
Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love
Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga
Inbunden, 2022
2350 kr
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Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness and seeking justice; and the importance of …
Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love
Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga
Häftad, 2022
530 kr
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Destruction, Ethics, and Intergalactic Love: Exploring Y: The Last Man and Saga offers a creative and accessible exploration of the two comic book series, examining themes like nonviolence; issues of gender and war; heroes and moral failures; forgiveness and seeking justice; and the importance of …
Ilan Manouach in Review
Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics
Av Pedro Moura
Inbunden, 2023
2765 kr
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This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly.An international team of authors engages with the topic from diverse theoretical approaches, from traditional narratology and aesthetic …
Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative
Av Xavier Dapena, Joanne Britland
Inbunden, 2023
2765 kr
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In a spirit of community and collective action, this volume offers insights into the complexity of the political imagination and its cultural scope within Spanish graphic narrative through the lens of global political and social movements.Developed during the critical years of the COVID-19 pandemic …
Political Imagination in Spanish Graphic Narrative
Av Xavier Dapena, Joanne Britland
Häftad, 2025
697 kr
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In a spirit of community and collective action, this volume offers insights into the complexity of the political imagination and its cultural scope within Spanish graphic narrative through the lens of global political and social movements.Developed during the critical years of the COVID-19 pandemic …
Ilan Manouach in Review
Critical Approaches to his Conceptual Comics
Av Pedro Moura
Häftad, 2024
713 kr
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This book takes an interdisciplinary and diverse critical look at the work of comic artist Ilan Manouach, situating it within the avant-garde movement more broadly.An international team of authors engages with the topic from diverse theoretical approaches, from traditional narratology and aesthetic …
Comics Beyond Text and Image
On the Substance of Visual Narration
Inbunden, 2025
2525 kr
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Comics Beyond Text and Image conceptualizes comics as “bodies,” exploring the substance and the many movements and expressions of comics first and foremost in terms of corporeality.The book centers on the metaphor of the comics body as a way of opening up our understandings of what comics do. It …
Immigrants and Comics
Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis
Inbunden, 2021
2765 kr
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Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Nhora Lucía …
