Jackson Ayres

Alan Moore (eBook, PDF)

A Critical Guide

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

A complete guide to the comics work of the writer Alan Moore, this book helps readers explore one of the genre's most important, compelling and subversive writers.

In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book covers:

· Moore's comics career - from his early work in 2000AD to his breakthrough graphic novels and his later battles with the industry
· Moore's major works - including Watchmen, V for Vendetta, Saga of the Swamp Thing and Promethea
· Key themes and contexts - from Moore's subversion of the superhero genre and metafictional techniques to his creative collaborations and battles with the industry for creator control
· Critical approaches to Moore's work

The book includes a bibliography of critical work on Moore and discussion questions for classroom use.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. März 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350060494
• Artikelnr.: 61093472

Autorenporträt

Jackson Ayres is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University, San Antonio, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Dedication Series Editor's Preface List of Figures Acknowledgments 1.
Introduction Do We Need Moore? The Original Writer A Guide to this Guide
2. Historical and Biographical Contexts Mage of the Midlands Thatcherism
The British Invasion Creator Rights 3. Key Texts, Part One Invading British
Comics Origins 2000 A.D.: Short Stories, Skizz, DR and Quinch, and The
Ballad of Halo Jones The Bojeffries Saga Reinventing Superheroes: Britain
Marvelman/Miracleman Captain Britain V for Vendetta Reinventing
Superheroes: America The Saga of the Swamp Thing Whatever Happened to the
Man of Tomorrow? The Killing Joke Watchmen 4. Key Texts, Part Two Horrors
of History From Hell A Small Killing Big Numbers Brought to Light
Re-Imagining Superheroes 1963 Supreme Moore's '90s Superheroes Cultural
Commons "In Pictopia" Lost Girls The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
America's Best Comics Tom Strong Tomorrow Stories Top 10 Promethea
Histories of Horror Lovecraft Cycle: The Courtyard, Neonomicon, and
Providence Crossed + 100 Cinema Purgatorio 5. Critical Questions Themes and
Techniques Intertextuality Magic Psychogeography Englishness
Representations Race Sexuality Sexual Violence 6. Social and Cultural
Impact Authorship and Ownership The Revised Superhero Mature Readers?
Politics and/of Comics Cultural Remixing Moore After Comics, Comics After
Moore Glossary Works Cited Index