Comics and Visual Culture: Research Studies from Ten Countries.
Death: la vie ... à quel prix!
by McKean, Dave, Gaiman, Neil, Buckingham, Mark, Bachalo, Christopher
Une fois par siècle, la Mort vient faire un tour sur la Terre afin de mieux comprendre ces humains qu'elle accueillera un jour. Incarnée dans le corps d'une jeune fille gothique, elle se lie d'amitié avec un adolescent et aide une sans-abri âgée de 250 ans à retrouver son coeur …
Esta tesis aborda, desde la Historia cultural, las manifestaciones de algunos miedos de la Guerra Fría durante la década de 1960 en Estados Unidos en los medios de entretenimiento, especialmente en los cómics. La fuente principal de esta investigación son los cómics de la editor…
This research examines images of adolescents made in late 19th and early 20th century America, the same time that “adolescence” as a concept was coined and codified. Many of these first images of adolescence were forged in marginal and experimental visual media, particularly in …
Pictures play an important role in human history. From ancient frescoes to modern comics, two-dimensional images advance the tale of narration. And this incredible power is also embodied in comics.
This thesis project argues that war has been the greatest catalyst for the American comic book medium to become a socio-political change agent within western society. Comic books have become one of the most pervasive influences to global popular culture, with superheroes dominat…
Holy Stitches, Batman, or, Performative Villainy in Gothic/am is an interdisciplinary examination of gothic affect and deviant fashion in the narrative construction of villainy. It asks not just what a villain looks like, but what it means to look like a villain. A villain is a …
My dissertation ("The Pazienza-function. Andrea Pazienza's influence on the Italian graphic novel"), focuses on the impact that comics auteur Andrea Pazienza (1956-1988) has had on many aspects of contemporary Italian culture. Foucault's identification of the role of the author …
Stories about the AIDS crisis in the United States nearly always feature white cisgender gay men. Queerness and diversity, however, are a more accurate descriptors of the AIDS crisis. To help create a more accurate account of this medical event, I analyze comics and graphic nove…
Formal criticism of comics has often focused on the importance of sequence and the filling of gutters with causative logics. Practitioner-theorists like Will Eisner and Scott McCloud have focused on “sequentiality” and “closure” to conceive of how readers connect the disparate p…
This book explores some of the less frequently questioned ideas which underpin comics creation and criticism. "Mise en scène" is a term which refers to the way in which visual elements work together to create meaning in comics. It is a term that comics have borrowed from cinema,…
