Marc Singer

Breaking the Frames

Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Challenging common critical practices and offering new interpretations of canonical texts by Marjane Satrapi, Alan Moore, Kyle Baker, Chris Ware, and others, this volume offers the first major critique of the field of comics studies.

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Produktdetails

• World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 312
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Januar 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 228mm x 151mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 474g
• ISBN-13: 9781477317105
• ISBN-10: 1477317104
• Artikelnr.: 52413526

Autorenporträt

Marc Singer is an associate professor of English at Howard University. He is the author of Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics and the coeditor of Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World.

Inhaltsangabe

* Acknowledgments
* Introduction: Pow! Zap! Comics Aren’t Just for Cultural Studies
Professors Anymore
* 1.The Myth of Eco: Comics, Continuity, and Cultural Populism
* 2.The Abuses of History: Postmodernism and Contemporary Superhero
Comics
* 3.Properties of the Imagination: Copyright and Empire in The League
of Extraordinary Gentlemen
* 4.The Limits of Realism: Alternative Comics and the Workshop
Aesthetic
* 5.Comics Studies in Miniature: The Canonization of Persepolis
* 6.Shadows of the Past: Fictions of History in Nat Turner
* Afterword: Never Apologize, Never Defend
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index