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Redrawing the Western
A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
Häftad, 2026
424 kr
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2025 Best Single Author Book, Midwest Popular Culture Association2025 Longlist, Reading the West Book Award in Nonfiction, Mountains & Plains Independent Booksellers AssociationA history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular …
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond
Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil
Häftad, 2016
365 kr
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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium’s most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by HÉctor Oesterheld’s groundbreaking 1950s serial El …
Graphic Borders
Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future
Av Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González
Inbunden, 2016
1128 kr
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From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a vibrant medium to express Latino identity and …
Graphic Borders
Latino Comic Books Past, Present, and Future
Av Frederick Luis Aldama, Christopher González
Häftad, 2016
362 kr
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From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a vibrant medium to express Latino identity and …
Arresting Development
Comics at the Boundaries of Literature
Inbunden, 2016
1128 kr
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Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel’s development describe the form’s “coming of age,” its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the medium’s history of censorship and …
Arresting Development
Comics at the Boundaries of Literature
Häftad, 2016
365 kr
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Mainstream narratives of the graphic novel’s development describe the form’s “coming of age,” its maturation from pulp infancy to literary adulthood. In Arresting Development, Christopher Pizzino questions these established narratives, arguing that the medium’s history of censorship and …
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond
Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil
Inbunden, 2016
1066 kr
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El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond examines the graphic narrative tradition in the two South American countries that have produced the medium’s most significant and copious output. Argentine graphic narrative emerged in the 1980s, awakened by HÉctor Oesterheld’s groundbreaking 1950s serial El …
Picturing Childhood
Youth in Transnational Comics
Av Mark Heimermann, Brittany Tullis
Inbunden, 2017
1066 kr
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Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault’s Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo, and Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie to HergÉ’s Tintin (Belgium), JosÉ Escobar’s Zipi and Zape (Spain), and Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz (Germany), …
Picturing Childhood
Youth in Transnational Comics
Av Mark Heimermann, Brittany Tullis
Häftad, 2017
331 kr
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Comics and childhood have had a richly intertwined history for nearly a century. From Richard Outcault’s Yellow Kid, Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo, and Harold Gray’s Little Orphan Annie to HergÉ’s Tintin (Belgium), JosÉ Escobar’s Zipi and Zape (Spain), and Wilhelm Busch’s Max and Moritz (Germany), …
Make Ours Marvel
Media Convergence and a Comics Universe
Av Matt Yockey
Inbunden, 2017
1030 kr
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The creation of the Fantastic Four effectively launched the Marvel Comics brand in 1961. Within ten years, the introduction (or reintroduction) of characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and the X-Men catapulted Marvel past its primary rival, DC Comics, for domination of …
Make Ours Marvel
Media Convergence and a Comics Universe
Av Matt Yockey
Häftad, 2017
318 kr
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The creation of the Fantastic Four effectively launched the Marvel Comics brand in 1961. Within ten years, the introduction (or reintroduction) of characters such as Spider-Man, the Hulk, Iron Man, Captain America, and the X-Men catapulted Marvel past its primary rival, DC Comics, for domination of …
Breaking the Frames
Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies
Av Marc Singer
Häftad, 2019
428 kr
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A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on the populist rhetoric of cultural studies. As …
Art of Pere Joan
Space, Landscape, and Comics Form
Inbunden, 2019
624 kr
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Born in Mallorca, Pere Joan Riera (known professionally as Pere Joan) thrived in the underground comics world, beginning in the mid-1970s with the self-published collections Baladas Urbanas and MuŽrdago, both of which were released almost immediately after the death of the dictator Francisco Franco …
Film Photonovel
A Cultural History of Forgotten Adaptations
Av Jan Baetens
Inbunden, 2019
526 kr
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Discarded by archivists and disregarded by scholars despite its cultural impact on post–World War II Europe, the film photonovel represents a unique crossroads. This hybrid medium presented popular films in a magazine format that joined film stills or set pictures with captions and dialogue …
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement
Reframing History in Comics
Av Jorge Santos
Inbunden, 2019
1128 kr
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Winner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The history of America’s civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key figures and turning points to the margins, but graphic …
Graphic Memories of the Civil Rights Movement
Reframing History in Comics
Av Jorge Santos
Häftad, 2019
384 kr
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Winner, Charles Hatfield Book Prize, Comic Studies Society, 2020A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019The history of America’s civil rights movement is marked by narratives that we hear retold again and again. This has relegated many key figures and turning points to the margins, but graphic …
All New, All Different?
A History of Race and the American Superhero
Av Allan W. Austin, Patrick L. Hamilton
Inbunden, 2019
1087 kr
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Winner, John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2019MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association, 2020Taking a multifaceted approach to attitudes toward race through popular …
Supersex
Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
Av Anna Peppard
Inbunden, 2020
663 kr
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2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited CollectionFrom Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both.From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes …
Supersex
Sexuality, Fantasy, and the Superhero
Av Anna Peppard
Häftad, 2023
367 kr
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2021 Comic Studies Society Prize for Edited CollectionFrom Superman and Batman to the X-Men and Young Avengers, Supersex interrogates the relationship between heroism and sexuality, shedding new light on our fantasies of both.From Superman, created in 1938, to the transmedia DC and Marvel universes …
Claremont Run
Subverting Gender in the X-Men
Inbunden, 2023
596 kr
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Winner - 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in Best Academic/Scholarly Work, announced at San Diego Comic-Con International (2024)A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author’s subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time.By the time Chris Claremont’s run as …
Super Bodies
Comic Book Illustration, Artistic Styles, and Narrative Impact
Inbunden, 2023
686 kr
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Finalist - San Diego Comic-Con International 2024 Eisner Award in Best Academic/Scholarly Work2024 MPCA/ACA Best Book for Use in the Classroom, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association (MPCA/ACA)An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences …
Latin American Comics in the Twenty-First Century
Transgressing the Frame
Av James Scorer
Inbunden, 2024
591 kr
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How twenty-first-century Latin American comics transgress social, political, and cultural frontiers.Given comics’ ability to cross borders, Latin American creators have used the form to transgress the political, social, spatial, and cultural borders that shape the region. A groundbreaking and …
Searching for Feminist Superheroes
Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics
Inbunden, 2024
591 kr
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How superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories.It’s no secret that superhero comics and their related media perpetuate a model of a straight, white, male hero at the expense of representing women and other minorities, but other narratives exist. …
Redrawing the Western
A History of American Comics and the Mythic West
Inbunden, 2024
624 kr
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A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.Redrawing the Western charts a history of the Western genre in American comics from the late 1800s through the 1970s and beyond. Encompassing the core years in which the genre was …
Claremont Run
Subverting Gender in the X-Men
Häftad, 2024
445 kr
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Winner - 2024 Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards in Best Academic/Scholarly Work, announced at San Diego Comic-Con International (2024)A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author’s subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time.By the time Chris Claremont’s run as …
Out of the Gutters
Obscenity, Censorship, and Transgression in American Comics
Av Jorge J. Santos, Patrick Lawrence
Inbunden, 2025
720 kr
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Comics have long been a subject of moral panics, no doubt thanks to their in-your-face illustrations and their association with young readers. Indeed, the politicians and parents behind today’s book-banning campaigns reserve special ire for graphic novels. What makes today’s controversies different …
Look of the 1960s
Barbarella and Pulp Pop Comics
Av Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey
Inbunden, 2026
720 kr
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How the classic aesthetic of 1960s pulp comics influenced art, culture, and politics.As a form of visual art, comic books rely on a distinct and eye-catching aesthetic. This is especially true of the iconic comics, graphic novels, and illustrations of the 1960s and 1970s. The Look of the 1960s …
All New, All Different?
A History of Race and the American Superhero
Av Allan W. Austin, Patrick L. Hamilton
Häftad, 2019
387 kr
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Winner, John G. Cawelti Award for the Best Textbook/Primer, Popular Culture Association/American Culture Association, 2019MPCA/ACA Book Award, Midwest Popular Culture Association / Midwest American Culture Association, 2020Taking a multifaceted approach to attitudes toward race through popular …
