Comics Studies Here and Now -

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Editeur : Routledge

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/05/2018

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 366.0

Expédition : 630

Dimensions : 23.5 x 16.1 x 24.0

ISBN : 9781138498976

Résumé :
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....

Biographie:

Frederick Luis Aldama is the author, co-author, and editor of over 30 books, including recently Latinx Superheroes in Mainstream Comics. He is Arts & Humanities Distinguished Professor, University Distinguished Scholar, and Director of the award-winning LASER (Latinx Space for Enrichment & Research) at The Ohio State University.

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Sommaire:

List of Figures

List of Contributors

Matt Madden's Brief Comic Book Odyssey: A Foreword

Comic Studies Here and Now: An Introduction

Part I: Words, Pictures, and Borders

Chapter 1: A Touch of Irony and Pity: Krazy Kat in the Breaks

Ben Novotny Owen

Chapter 2: In Love with Magic and Monsters: The Groundbreaking Life and Work of Rose O'Neill

Richard Graham and Colin Beineke

Chapter 3: It's sorta wacky! But, different!: Scribbly, Inkie, and Pre-Underground Autobiographical Comics

Andrew J. Kunka

Chapter 4: How Lust Was Lost: Genre, Identity, and the Neglect of a Pioneering Comics Publication

Robert Hulshof-Schmidt

Part II Transmedial Forms

Chapter 5: Comics, Race, and the Political Project of Intermediality in Karen TeiYamashita's I Hotel

Jennifer Glaser

Chapter 6: Alfred Hitchcock's Rear Window as 'cineromanzo'

Jan Baetens

Chapter 7: Articulate This!: Critical Action Figure Studies and Material Culture

Jonathan Alexandratos and Daniel F. Yezbick

Part III Institutions and Movements

Chapter 8: Singapore cartoons in the anti-comics movement of the 1950s and 1960s

Lim Cheng Tju

Chapter 9: The Institutional Support for Hong Kong Independent Comics

Kin Wai Chu

Chapter 10: Jir? Taniguchi: France's Mangaka

Bart Beaty

Part IV Resistant Word-Drawn Acts & Transformative Reading Communities

Chapter 11: The Latina Superheroine: Protecting the Reader from the Comic Book Industry's Racial, Gender, Ethnic, and Nationalist Biases

Enrique Garc?a

Chapter 12: The Page is Local: Planetarity and Embodied Metaphor in Anglophone Graphic Narratives from South Asia

Torsa Ghosal

Chapter 13: Hands Across the Ocean: A 1970s Network of French and American Women Cartoonists

Leah Misemer

Chapter 14: Comics as Orientation Devices

Katherine Kelp-Stebbins

Chapter 15: Service Dogs, Code Switching, and Interracial Polyamory: Exploring the Reclamation Narratives of Comic Fandom

Erica Massey

Part V Margins Transforming Centers

Chapter 16: Once and Again, Ack!: Epimone, Recursion, and Variation in Guisewite's Cathy

Susan Kirtely

Chapter 17: Transnationality and Textual Mestizaje in Love and Rockets

Brittany Tullis

Chapter 18: Only a Chilling Elegy: An Examination of White Bodies, Colonialism, Fascism, Genocide, and Racism in Dragon Ball

Zachary Michael Lewis Dean

Chapter 19: From the Inner City to the Interstellar: Brian K. Vaughan's Comix after 9/11

James J. Donahue

Chapter 20: Am I Doing the Right Thing?: Milestone Comics, Black Nationalism, and the Cosmopolitics of Static

Sean Guynes

Chapter 21: Reconceptualizing the 'Immature': Humor in John Layman and Rob Guillory's Chew

Christopher Pizzino