In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics.
In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Matthew J. Brown, Ph.D., is Director of the Center for Values in Medicine, Science, and Technology and Associate Professor of Philosophy, History of Ideas, and Humanities at the University of Texas at Dallas. Since 2008, he has run the Comics and Popular Arts Conference, an annual, peer-reviewed, academic conference on comics and pop culture studies that takes place in Atlanta annually on Labor Day Weekend. He teaches Comics Studies in the Humanities Ph.D. program at the University of Texas at Dallas. Randy Duncan, Ph.D., is Professor of Communication and Director of the Comics Studies Program at Henderson State University. He is co-author of the widely used textbook The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture (2015) and co-author of Creating Comics as Journalism, Memoir and Nonfiction (2015). Dr. Duncan is co-founder, with Peter Coogan, of the Comics Arts Conference, held each summer in San Diego. In 2009 Duncan received the Inge Award for Outstanding Comics Scholarship and in 2012 he received the Inkpot Award for Achievement in Comics Arts. Duncan and Matthew J. Smith are editors of the Routledge Advances in Comics Studies series. Matthew J. Smith, Ph.D., is Interim Dean in the College of Humanities and Behavioral Sciences and Professor of Communication at Radford University in Radford, Virginia. He serves in the presidential line of succession for the Comics Studies Society and has co-authored nine books. These include The Secret Origins of Comics Studies (2017) and The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture (2015). He and Randy Duncan are also co-curators on "Marvel: Universe of Super Heroes," a traveling exhibit that debuted at the Museum of Popular Culture in Seattle in 2018.
Inhaltsangabe
Part 1: Viewpoints 1. Critical Theory 2. Postcolonial Theory 3. Critical Race Theory 4. Queer Theory 5. Disability Studies 6. Critical Geography 7. Utopianism Part 2: Expression 8. New Criticism 9. Psychoanalytic Criticism 10. Autographics 11. Linguistics 12. Philosophical Aesthetics 13. Burkean Dramatistic Analysis Part 3: Relationships 14. Adaptation 15. Transmedia Storytelling 16. Parasocial Relationship Analysis 17. Historiography 18. Bakhtinian Dialogics 19. Scientific Humanities
