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Summary:

An examination of the cutting-edge critical engagement in the field of modern comics studies.

Table of Contents:

• Cover
• CRITICAL DIRECTIONS IN COMICS STUDIES
• Title
• Copyright
• CONTENTS
• Preface: Welcome and Orientation
• COMICS INTERLUDE #1-Critical Comics Studies: An Origin Story
• 1 On Violation: Comic Books, Delinquency, Phenomenology
• 2 Articulating Health Humanities in Graphic Narratives by Medical Illustrators
• 3 "There Is a Man . . . with a Typewriter": Deadpool as Existential Antihero, Breaking the Fourth Wall of Meaningful Existence
• 4 Theological "Seeing" of Law: Daredevil, Christian Iconography, and Legal Aesthetics
• COMICS INTERLUDE #2-Let's Get Critical!
• 5 The Freedom of the Press: Comics, Labor, and Value in the Birmingham Arts Lab
• 6 Hate, Marginalization, and Tramp-Bashing: A Raceclass and Critical Realist Approach to Researching British National Identity through Comics
• 7 Comics and Heteroglossia
• 8 Women's Cartoons and Comics in the Twenty-First Century: How the Humor in Simone Lia's Fluffy Challenges Gendered Assumptions around Parenting
• 9 Politicization of Life and Auto-Thanatopolitics in V for Vendetta
• COMICS INTERLUDE #3-The Nested Text
• 10 "Destructive Interim Formation"
• 11 The Mask as Anti-Apparatus: On the Counter-Dispositif of V for Vendetta

• 12 "So You Still Believe in the Future?" Socialist Utopianism and Marxist Critique in The Red Virgin and the Vision of Utopia
• 13 The Parable of Bill Ayers: Comics, Allegory, and Critical Legal Thinking
• Contributors

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Contributors:

Giddens, Thomas , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Subjects:

Comic books, strips, etc. — History and criticism

Comic books, strips, etc.

Genres:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

General Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 31, 2020).

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PN6710 .C75 2020eb

ISBNs:

1496829042 (electronic book)
1496829026 (electronic bk.)
9781496829023 (electronic bk.)
9781496829047 (electronic bk.)
9781496829009 [Invalid]
149682900X [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1178908381