Studies in European Comics and Graphic Novels – serie
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French Comics Theory Reader
Av Ann Miller, Bart Beaty
Häftad, 2014
791 kr
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Key French-language theoretical texts on comics translated into English for the first time 'The French Comics Theory Reader' presents a collection of key theoretical texts on comics, spanning a period from the 1960s to the 2010s, written in French and never before translated into English. The …
What Happens When Nothing Happens
Boredom and Everyday Life in Contemporary Comics
Häftad, 2016
755 kr
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Boredom and melancholy in the experience of reading. Contemporary graphic novels show an interesting shift from the extraordinary to the ordinary in slice-of-life stories in which nothing happens. Present-day graphic accounts are inhabited by melancholic characters whining about the lack of meaning …
Comics of the New Europe
Reflections and Intersections
Av Martha Kuhlman, Jose Alaniz
Häftad, 2020
832 kr
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A new generation of European cartoonistsBringing together the work of an array of North American and European scholars, this collection highlights a previously unexamined area within global comics studies. It analyses comics from countries formerly behind the Iron Curtain like East Germany, Poland, …
Visualising Small Traumas
Contemporary Portuguese Comics at the Intersection of Everyday Trauma
Av Pedro Moura
Häftad, 2022
832 kr
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Portugal's vibrant comics scene originated as early as the 19th century, bringing forth brilliant individual artists, but has remained mostly unknown beyond Portugal's borders to this day. Now a new generation employs this medium to put into question hegemonic views on the economy, politics, and …
Clear Line in Comics and Cinema
A Transmedial Approach
Häftad, 2022
832 kr
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Historical and theoretical analysis of the clear line style in comics and cinemaThe clear line, a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Herge and the Ecole de Bruxelles. It refers to …
Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice
Comics Picturing Girlhood
Av Dona Pursall, Eva Van de Wiele
Häftad, 2023
447 kr
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Sugar, Spice, and the Not So Nice offers an innovative, wide-ranging and geographically diverse book-length treatment of girlhood in comics. The various contributing authors and artists provide novel insights into established themes within comic studies, children's comics, graphic medicine and …
Belgian Photonovel, 1954-1985
An Introduction
Häftad, 2023
663 kr
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The Belgian photonovel is the missing link in the amazing history of the photonovel, a comics-inspired form of visual narrative that combines elements from very different genres and media, ranging from literary melodrama, cinema, and of course comics. This monograph discloses the specific Belgian …
Visionary Art of Franco-Belgian Comics, 1930s to 1960s
Häftad, 2025
573 kr
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Exhibition catalogue ‘Visionary Comics: The collection of Alain Van Passen’, Comic Art Museum – Brussels, 16.09.25 – 07.12.25Hidden within the millions of panels and magazine pages collected by Alain Van Passen, a devoted Belgian comics collector active from the earliest days of the comics clubs, …
Sfar So Far
Identity, History, Fantasy, and Mimesis in Joann Sfar's Graphic Novels
Häftad, 2014
817 kr
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Includes an in-depth interview with French cartoonist Joann Sfar.Sfar So Far is the first monograph in any language devoted to the graphic novels of Joann Sfar, an artist whose abundant and innovative work has profoundly marked the contemporary French comics scene. This essay examines how, over the …
Remembered Reading
Memory, Comics and Post-War Constructions of British Girlhood
Av Mel Gibson
Häftad, 2015
755 kr
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A reader’s history exploring girls’ comicsGirls’ comics were a major genre from the 1950s onwards in Britain and the most popular titles sold between 800,000 and a million copies a week. However, this genre was slowly replaced by magazines which now dominate publishing for girls. 'Remembered …
Transforming Anthony Trollope
Dispossession, Victorianism and Nineteenth-Century Word and Image
Av Simon Grennan, Laurence Grove
Häftad, 2015
755 kr
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200 years of Anthony Trollope This volume is a cross-disciplinary collection of essays in the fields of nineteenth-century history, adaptation, word/image and Victorianism. Featuring new writing by some of the most influential, respected and radical scholars in these fields, Transforming Anthony …
French Cartoon Art in the 1960s and 1970s
Pilote hebdomadaire and the Teenager Bande Dessinee
Häftad, 2018
770 kr
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The French comic magazine Pilote hebdomadaire arrived in a weakening comics market in 1959 largely dominated by syndicated translations of American comics and comics inspired by a Catholic ethos. It tailored its content and tone to an older adolescent reader far removed from that of France's infant …
Postcolonialism and Migration in French Comics
Häftad, 2021
924 kr
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Profound analysis of French comics through a postcolonial lensPostcolonialism and migration are major themes in contemporary French comics and have roots in the Algerian War (1954–62), antiracist struggle, and mass migration to France. This volume studies comics from the end of the formal …
Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity
The Comics Art of Frank Quitely
Av David John Boyd, Julie Briand-Boyd
Häftad, 2025
832 kr
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The work of Frank Quitely and the role of comics art in contemporary Scottish culture, politics and society.Superhero Comics and Scottish Identity explores the life and career of Glasgow-born, Eisner Award-winning, and internationally acclaimed Marvel, DC, and Image Comics artist Frank Quitely. …
