Critical directions in comics studies

by Giddens, Thomas

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Title Statements

Full title :Critical directions in comics studies / edited by Thomas Giddens.

Summary

"Recent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root-assumptions around the particular methods used to approach the comics form, the ways we should read comics, how its "system" works, and the disciplinary relationships that surround this evolving area of study. But other perspectives have also begun to flourish. These approaches question the reliance on structural linguistics and the tools of English and cultural studies in the examination and understanding of comics. In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics' creation and reception. Through this lens, influenced by poststructuralist theories, contributors explore and elaborate other possibilities for working with comics as a critical resource, consolidating the emergence of these alternative modes of engagement in a single text. This opens comics studies to a wider array of resources, perspectives, and modes of engagement. Included in this volume are essays on a range of comics and illustrations as well as considerations of such popular comics as Deadpool, Daredevil, and V for Vendetta, and analyses of comics production, medical illustrations, and original comics. Some contributions even unfold in the form of comics panels"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2020

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University Press of Mississippi
Place of Publication:Jackson
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2020

The Physical Object

Description:ix, 320 pages : : illustrations ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781496829009, 149682900X, 9781496828996, 1496828992
oclc:on1154102416
LC Classification:PN6710
Dewey Decimal:741.5/9

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