Keywords for Comics Studies (Keywords)

By: Andrew Hoberek and Shelley Streeby and Jared Gardner and Scott Bukatman and Darieck Scott and Nicholas Sammond and Mimi Thi Nguyen and Cathy Schlund-Vials and Frederick Luis Aldama and Bart Beaty and Rebecca Wanzo and Blair Davis and Tahneer Oksman and Michael Chaney and Jonathan W. Gray and Benjamin Woo and Ian Gordon and Stacey Robinson and Frank Bramlett and Adam L. Kern and Yetta Howard and Brannon Costello and Charles Hatfield and José Alaniz and Gregory Steirer and Aaron Kashtan and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley and Alexandro Segade and Amy Kiste Nyberg and André Carrington and Anthony Michael D’Agostino and Barbara Postema and Benjamin Saunders and Carol L. Tilley and Christopher Pizzino and Christopher Spaide and Cáel M. Keegan and Ellen Kirkpatrick and Enrique García and Ian Blechschmidt and Isabel Millán and Jessica Quick Stark and Joo Ok Kim and Joshua Abraham Kopin and Justin Hall and Leah Misemer and Margaret Galvan and Matt Silady and Michael Mark Cohen and Nicholas Yanes and Osvaldo Oyola and Phil Jimenez and Sara Biggs Chaney and Sean Guynes and 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 Quality:: Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:: 9781479825431
Related ISBNs:: 9781479831968
Publisher:: NYU Press
Date of Addition:: 02/06/25
Copyrighted By:: New York University
Adult content:: No
Language:: English
Has Image Descriptions:: No
Categories:: Nonfiction, Literature and Fiction, Social Studies, Language Arts
Submitted By:: Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:: This is a copyrighted book.
Edited by:: Ramzi Fawaz
Edited by:: Deborah Whaley
Edited by:: Shelley Streeby