Comics and the U

Comics and the U

by Costello, Brannon

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Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis or Chris Ware's Chicago to the swamps, back roads, small towns, and cities of the U.S. South, this collection critically examines the pulp genres associated with mainstream comic books alongside indepe…

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  • Full title :Comics and the U

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Comics and the U.S. South offers a wide-ranging and long overdue assessment of how life and culture in the United States South is represented in serial comics, graphic novels, newspaper comic strips, and webcomics. Diverting the lens of comics studies from the skyscrapers of Superman's Metropolis or Chris Ware's Chicago to the swamps, back roads, small towns, and cities of the U.S. South, this collection critically examines the pulp genres associated with mainstream comic books alongside independent and alternative comics. Some essays seek to discover what Captain America can reveal about sout ...

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2011

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  • Description:1 online resource (359 Seiten)

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781617030185, 161703018X, 9781617030192, 1617030198
  • oclc:ocn956908862
  • LC Classification:PN6725 .C647 2012
  • Dewey Decimal:741.5973

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