Drawing from range of current scholarship demonstrating that comics are an expressive medium whose moves (structural and aesthetic) may be shared by literature, the visual arts, and film, possessing qualities these other mediums do not, this volume, written by teachers and scholars of comics for instructors, bridges research and pedagogy, providing models of critical readings around a variety of comic works.
Drawing from range of current scholarship demonstrating that comics are an expressive medium whose moves (structural and aesthetic) may be shared by literature, the visual arts, and film, possessing qualities these other mediums do not, this volume, written by teachers and scholars of comics for instructors, bridges research and pedagogy, providing models of critical readings around a variety of comic works.
Crag Allen Hill is Assistant Professor of English Education at Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma, USA.
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Contents Preface 1. Introduction: The Growing Relevance of Comics Crag Hill Section 1: Materiality and the Reading of Comics 2. Designing Meaning: A Multimodal Perspective on Comics Reading Sean P. Connors 3. Multimodal Forms: Examining Text, Image, and Visual Literacy in Daniel Handler's Why We Broke Up and Markus Zusak's The Book Thief Amy Bright Section 2: Comics and Bodies 4. Illustrating Youth: A Critical Examination of the Artful Depictions of Adolescent Characters in Comics Mark A. Lewis 5. Just Like Us? LGBTQ Characters in Mainstream Comics A. Scott Henderson Section 3: Comics and the Mind 6. Telling the Untellable: Comics and Language of Mental Illness Sarah Thaller 7. Christian Forgiveness in Gene Luen Yang's Animal Crackers and Eternal Smile: A Thematic Analysis Jake Stratman Section 4: Comics and Contemporary Society 8. Poverty Lines: Visual Depictions of Poverty and Social Class Realities in Comics Fred Johnson, Whitworth University, and Janine J. Darragh, University of Idaho 9. Can Superhero Comics Defeat Racism?: Black Superheroes "Torn between Sci-Fi Fantasy and Cultural Reality" P.L. Thomas 10. Teaching Native American Comics with Post-Colonial Theory Lisa Schade Eckert Section 5: Endpoints 11. Crag Hill List of Contributors Additional resources were compiled by Shaina Thomas.
Contents Preface 1. Introduction: The Growing Relevance of Comics Crag Hill Section 1: Materiality and the Reading of Comics 2. Designing Meaning: A Multimodal Perspective on Comics Reading Sean P. Connors 3. Multimodal Forms: Examining Text, Image, and Visual Literacy in Daniel Handler's Why We Broke Up and Markus Zusak's The Book Thief Amy Bright Section 2: Comics and Bodies 4. Illustrating Youth: A Critical Examination of the Artful Depictions of Adolescent Characters in Comics Mark A. Lewis 5. Just Like Us? LGBTQ Characters in Mainstream Comics A. Scott Henderson Section 3: Comics and the Mind 6. Telling the Untellable: Comics and Language of Mental Illness Sarah Thaller 7. Christian Forgiveness in Gene Luen Yang's Animal Crackers and Eternal Smile: A Thematic Analysis Jake Stratman Section 4: Comics and Contemporary Society 8. Poverty Lines: Visual Depictions of Poverty and Social Class Realities in Comics Fred Johnson, Whitworth University, and Janine J. Darragh, University of Idaho 9. Can Superhero Comics Defeat Racism?: Black Superheroes "Torn between Sci-Fi Fantasy and Cultural Reality" P.L. Thomas 10. Teaching Native American Comics with Post-Colonial Theory Lisa Schade Eckert Section 5: Endpoints 11. Crag Hill List of Contributors Additional resources were compiled by Shaina Thomas.
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