Die Erfolgsgeschichte der deutsch-französischen Verständigung nach dem Zweiten Weltkrieg ist ohne den Beitrag der Zivilgesellschaft nicht denkbar. Doch nicht nur staatlich geförderte Kultureinrichtungen, Bürgerengagement und intellektuelle Mittler machten diese Überwindung alter…
La literatura argentina a menudo ha sido adaptada para el cine. Asimismo, el cine argentino ha seleccionado obras literarias conocidas del extranjero como modelos. El siguiente volumen no trata solo de literatura y cine y tampoco se limita a la literatura canonizada, sino que in…
"What exactly are comics? Can they be art, literature, or even pornography? How should we understand the characters, stories, and genres that shape them? Thinking about comics raises a bewildering range of questions about representation, narrative, and value. Philosophy of Comic…
The "clear line", a term coined in 1977 by Dutch essayist and artist Joost Swarte, has become shorthand in the field of comics studies for the style originally developed by Hergé and the École de Bruxelles. It refers to certain storytelling strategies that generate a deceptively…
This book explores what the methodologies of Art History might offer Comics Studies, in terms of addressing overlooked aspects of aesthetics, form, materiality, perception and visual style. As well as considering what Art History proposes of comic scholarship, including the ques…
"Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework, treating manga as the exotic antithesis to American and European comics. In reality, the history of manga i…
"Japanese comics, commonly known as manga, are a global sensation. Critics, scholars, and everyday readers have often viewed this artform through an Orientalist framework, treating manga as the exotic antithesis to American and European comics. In reality, the history of manga i…
From the influential work of Los Bros Hernandez in Love & Rockets, to comic strips and political cartoons, to traditional superheroes made nontraditional by means of racial and sexual identity (e.g., Miles Morales/Spider-Man), comics have become a vibrant medium to express Latin…
"Written in straightforward, jargon-free language, A Concise Dictionary of Comics guides students, researchers, readers, and educators of all ages and at all levels of comics expertise. It provides them with a dictionary that doubles as a compendium of comics scholarship. A Conc…