Keywords for Comics Studies

By: Andrew Hoberek • Shelley Streeby • Jared Gardner • Scott Bukatman • Darieck Scott • Nicholas Sammond • Mimi Thi Nguyen • Cathy Schlund-Vials • Frederick Luis Aldama • Bart Beaty • Rebecca Wanzo • Blair Davis • Tahneer Oksman • Michael Chaney • Jonathan W. Gray • Benjamin Woo • Ian Gordon • Stacey Robinson • Frank Bramlett • Adam L. Kern • Yetta Howard • Brannon Costello • Charles Hatfield • José Alaniz • Gregory Steirer • Aaron Kashtan • Deborah Elizabeth Whaley • Alexandro Segade • Amy Kiste Nyberg • André Carrington • Anthony Michael D’Agostino • Barbara Postema • Benjamin Saunders • Carol L. Tilley • Christopher Pizzino • Christopher Spaide • Cáel M. Keegan • Ellen Kirkpatrick • Enrique García • Ian Blechschmidt • Isabel Millán • Jessica Quick Stark • Joo Ok Kim • Joshua Abraham Kopin • Justin Hall • Leah Misemer • Margaret Galvan • Matt Silady • Michael Mark Cohen • Nicholas Yanes • Osvaldo Oyola • Phil Jimenez • Sara Biggs Chaney • Sean Guynes • Susan Kirtley

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Synopsis

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studiesAcross more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen, and Love and Rockets.This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field’s most compelling and imaginative ideas.

Book Details

Book Quality:
ISBN-13:: 9781479825431
Publisher:: NYU Press
Date of Addition:: 2022-07-09T21:24:25Z
Language:: English
Categories:: Language Arts, Literature and Fiction, Nonfiction, Social Studies,
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.