Critical Approaches to Comics (eBook, PDF)

Theories and Methods
Redaktion: Smith, Matthew J.; Duncan, Randy

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Critical Approaches to Comics offers 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. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fandom, genre, intertextuality, adaptation, gender, narrative, formalism, visual culture, and much more.

As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics, Critical Approaches to Comics is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 328
• Erscheinungstermin: 22. März 2012
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136884740
• Artikelnr.: 38279297

Autorenporträt

Matthew J. Smith is Professor of Communication at Wittenberg University. He regularly teaches "Graphic Storytelling" and leads an annual field study at Comic-Con International. Recent books include The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture (with Randy Duncan) and Online Communication: Linking Technology, Culture, and Identity (with Andrew F. Wood). Randy Duncan is Professor of Communication at Henderson State University. He is co-author of The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture (with Matthew J. Smith). Duncan is a co-founder (with Peter Coogan) of the Comics Arts Conference, and serves on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Comic Art and the Board of Directors of the Institute for Comics Studies. He was recently presented the Inkpot Award for Achievement in Comic Arts during the Pioneers of Comics Scholarship panel at Comic-Con International in San Diego.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Should We Discipline the Reading of Comics? Henry JenkinsI.
Form 1. Wordless Comics: The Imaginative Appeal of Peter Kuper's The System
David Berona 2. Comics Modes: Caricature and Illustration in the Crumb
Family's Dirty LaundryJoseph Witek 3. Image Functions: Shape and Color as
Hermeneutic Images in Asterios Polyp Randy Duncan 4. Time and Narrative:
Unity and Discontinuity in The InvisiblesMarc Singer 5. Mise en scene and
Framing: Visual Storytelling in Lone Wolf and CubPascal Lefevre 6. Abstract
Form: Sequential Dynamism and Iconostasis in Abstract Comics and Steve
Ditko's Amazing Spider-ManAndrei MolotiuII. Content 7. Philosophy: "The
Triumph of the Human Spirit" in X-MenJeff McLaughlin 8. Journalism: Drawing
on Words to Picture the Past in Safe Area GorazdeAmy Kiste Nyberg 9.
Propaganda: The Pleasures of Persuasion in Captain AmericaChristopher
MurrayIII. Production 10. Political Economy: Manipulating Demand and "The
Death of Superman" Mark Rogers 11. Culture of Consumption: Commodification
through Superman: Return to KryptonIan Gordon 12. Ethnography of
Production: Editor Axel Alonso and the Sale of Ideas Stanford Carpenter
13. Auteur Criticism: The Re-Visionary Works of Alan Moore Matthew J. Smith
14. History: Discovering the Story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Brad J.
RiccaIV. Context 15. Genre: Reconstructing the Superhero in All Star
Superman Peter Coogan 16. Ideology: The Construction of Race and History in
Tintin in the CongoLeonard Rifas 17. Feminism: Second Wave Feminism in the
Pages of Lois LaneJennifer K. Stuller 18. Intertextuality: Surrealist
Intertextualities in Max's Bardin Ana MerinoV. Reception 19. Cultural
Studies: British Girls' Comics, Readers and Memories Mel Gibson 20.
Ethnography: Wearing One's Fandom Jeffrey A. Brown 21. Critical
Ethnography: The Comics Shop as Cultural Clubhouse Brian Swafford