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Comics Studies : A Guidebook / ed. by Bart Beaty, Charles Hatfield.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 1 online resource (336 p.) : 28 color imagesContent type:
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  • 9780813591452
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 741.5072 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Histories -- 1. Comic Strips -- 2. Comic Books -- 3. Underground and Alternative Comics -- 4. European Traditions -- 5. Manga -- 6. The Graphic Novel -- Part II. Cultures -- 7. Comics Industries -- 8. Readers, Audiences, and Fans -- 9. Children and Comics -- 10. Difference -- Part III. Forms -- 11. Cartooning -- 12. Design in Comics: Panels and Pages -- 13. Words and Images -- Part IV. Genres -- 14. Superheroes -- 15. Autographics -- 16. Girls, Women, and Comics -- 17. Digital Comics -- Time Line of Selected Events -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index
Summary: Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comic art has grown at a dizzying pace, with new publications, institutions, and courses springing up everywhere. The field crosses disciplinary and cultural borders and brings together myriad traditions. Comics Studies: A Guidebook offers a rich but concise introduction to this multifaceted field, authored by leading experts in multiple disciplines. It opens diverse entryways to comics studies, including history, form, audiences, genre, and cultural, industrial, and economic contexts. An invaluable one-stop resource for veteran and new comics scholars alike, this guidebook represents the state of the art in contemporary comics scholarship.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Histories -- 1. Comic Strips -- 2. Comic Books -- 3. Underground and Alternative Comics -- 4. European Traditions -- 5. Manga -- 6. The Graphic Novel -- Part II. Cultures -- 7. Comics Industries -- 8. Readers, Audiences, and Fans -- 9. Children and Comics -- 10. Difference -- Part III. Forms -- 11. Cartooning -- 12. Design in Comics: Panels and Pages -- 13. Words and Images -- Part IV. Genres -- 14. Superheroes -- 15. Autographics -- 16. Girls, Women, and Comics -- 17. Digital Comics -- Time Line of Selected Events -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Notes on the Contributors -- Index

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Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comic art has grown at a dizzying pace, with new publications, institutions, and courses springing up everywhere. The field crosses disciplinary and cultural borders and brings together myriad traditions. Comics Studies: A Guidebook offers a rich but concise introduction to this multifaceted field, authored by leading experts in multiple disciplines. It opens diverse entryways to comics studies, including history, form, audiences, genre, and cultural, industrial, and economic contexts. An invaluable one-stop resource for veteran and new comics scholars alike, this guidebook represents the state of the art in contemporary comics scholarship.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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