Gibbons, Dave

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Minutes to midnight: twelve essays on Watchmen

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"It's 1986. The first issue of Watchmen appears. The comics medium is changed forever. It's 2005. Watchmen is selected by Time as one of the greatest English-language novels since 1923. It's 2009. A film adaptation of Watchmen is released. It's today. Minutes to Midnight examine…

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The trauma graphic novel

by Romero-Jodar, Andres

fromRoutledge research in cultural and media studies

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The end of the twentieth century and the turn of the new millennium witnessed an unprecedented flood of traumatic narratives and testimonies of suffering in literature and the arts. Graphic novels, free at last from long decades of stern censorship, helped explore these topics b…

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Watchmen as literature: a critical study of the graphic novel

by Van Ness, Sara J.

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"Watchmen has been hailed as the quintessential graphic novel and has spawned a body of literary criticism since its 1986 release. This work explores the graphic novel's reception in both popular and scholarly arenas and how the conceptual relationship between images and words a…