The Oxford handbook of comic book studies
edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
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- Book (Print/Paper)
- Publication:
- New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2020]
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- Summary:
- The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies examines the history and evolution of the visual narrative genre from a global perspective. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds.
- Table of Contents:
- What kind of studies is comics studies? / Benjamin Woo
- Why there is no "language of comics" / Frank Bramlett
- In box : rethinking text in the digital age / Shiamin Kwa
- What else is a comic? Between Bayeux and Beano / Evan Thomas
- Reading spaces : the politics of page layout / Katherine Kelp-Stebbins
- Comics as art / David M. Ball
- The cartoon on the comics page : a phenomenology / Christopher Pizzino
- All by myself : single-panel comics and the question of genre / Michelle Ann Abate
- Drawing, redrawing, and undrawing / Benoît Crucifix
- Bakhtinian laughter and recent political editorial cartoons / Michael A. Chaney and Sara B. Chaney
- Columbia and the editorial cartoon / Nhora Lucía Serrano
- Efficacy of social commentary through cartooning / Ally Shwed
- Radical graphics : Australian second-phase comics / Kevin Patrick
- Self-regulation and self-censorship : comics creators in Czechoslovakia and Communist Eastern Bloc / Pavel Kořínek
- This is who I am : hybridity and materiality in comics memoir / John Logan Schell
- Auto/biographics and graphic histories made for the classroom : Logicomix and Abina and the important men / Sidonie Smith and Julia Watson
- Ambiguity in parallel : visualizing history in Boxers and saints / Lan Dong
- Irony, ethics, and lyric narrative in Miriam Engelberg's Cancer made me a shallower person / James Phelan
- Animals in graphic narrative / José Alaniz
- The diversionary art of Zeina Abirached in Le piano oriental / Mark McKinney
- Disco, derby, and drag : the queer politics of Marvel's Dazzler / Nicholas E. Miller
- The replacements : ethnicity, gender, and legacy heroes in Marvel Comics / Jeffrey A. Brown
- Hammer in hand : feminist community building in Jason Aaron's Thor / Susan Kirtley
- When feminism went to market : issues in feminist anthology comics of the 1980s and '90s / Rachel R. Miller
- Children in comics : between education and entertainment, conformity and agency / Maaheen Ahmed
- I'm not a kid, I'm a shark! : identity fluidity in Noelle Stevenson's young-adult graphic novels / James J. Donahue
- Forgetting at the intersection of comics and the multimodal novel : James Sie's Still life Las Vegas / Torsa Ghosal
- My favorite thing is monsters : the socially engaged graphic novel as a platform for intersectional feminism / Dan Hassler-Forest
- Paper or plastic? Mapping the transmedial intersections of comics and action figures / Daniel F. Yezbick and Jonathan Alexandratos
- Transformative architectures in postcolonial Hong Kong comics / Kin Wai Chu
- Adaptation and racial representation in Dell/Gold Key TV tie-ins / Andrew J. Kunka
- Candy and drugs for dinner : Rat queens, genre, and our aesthetic categories / Sean Guynes
- Non-compliants, brimpers, and she-romps : Bitch planet, Sex criminals, and their publics / Henry Jenkins
- Literary adaptations in comics and graphic novels / Jan Baetens
- Comics studies in America : the making of a field of scholarship? / Ian Gordon
- Next issue : anticipation and promise in comics studies / Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith
- Comics studies as interdiscipline / Dale Jacobs
- Comics studies as practitioner-scholar / Damian Duffy.
- Contributors:
- Aldama, Frederick Luis, 1969- , editor
- Languages:
- English
- Language Notes:
- Item content: English
- Other Related Resources:
- Online version: Oxford handbook of comic book studies (New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2020 — ISBN 9780190917975; OCLC Number 1104456487)
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- General Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Physical Description:
- xxiii, 717 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
- Physical Characteristics:
- illustration
- Call Numbers:
- PN6710 .O96 2020
- ISBNs:
- 9780190917944 (hardcover, acid-free paper)
0190917946 (hardcover, acid-free paper) - Library of Congress Control Numbers:
- 2019019775
- OCLC Numbers:
- 1100446101