The Oxford handbook of comic book studies
Frederick Luis Aldama (Editor)
The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies examines the history and evolution of the visual narrative genre from a global perspective. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xxiii, 717 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm.
9780190917944, 0190917946
1100446101
Section 1: What is a Comic?What Kind of Studies Are Comics Studies?Why There Is No "Language of Comics"In Box: Rethinking Text in the Digital AgeWhat Else is a Comic? Between Bayeux and BeanoReading Spaces: The Politics of Page LayoutComics as ArtThe Cartoon on the Comics Page: A PhenomenologyAll By Myself: Single-Panel Comics and the Question of GenreDrawing, Redrawing, and Undrawing Section 2: Comics as Social Commentary and Response to Sociopolitical RealitiesBakhtinian Laughter and Recent Political Editorial CartoonsColumbia and the Editorial Cartoon Efficacy of Social Commentary through CartooningRadical Graphics: Australian Second Phase Comics Self-Regulation and Auto-Censorship of Comics Creators in the Communist Eastern Bloc"This is Who I Am": Hybridity and Materiality in Comics MemoirAuto/biographics and Graphic Histories Made for the Classroom: Logicomix and Abina and the Important MenAmbiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers & Saints Section 3: Key Issues in ComicsIrony, Ethics, and Lyric Narrative in Miriam Engelberg's Cancer Made Me a Shallower PersonAnimals in Graphic NarrativeA Diversionary Art in Le Piano Oriental by Zeina AbirachedDisco, Derby, and Drag: The Queer Politics of Marvel's Dazzler The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender and Legacy Heroes in Marvel ComicsA Diversionary Art in Le Piano Oriental by Zeina AbirachedHammer in Hand: Feminist Community Building in Jason Aaron's ThorWhen Feminism Went to Market: Issues in Feminist Comics Anthologies in the 1980s & 90sChildren in Comics: Between Education and Entertainment, Conformity and Agency"I'm not a kid; I'm a shark!": Identity Fluidity in Noelle Stevenson's Young Adult Graphic NovelsSection 4: Comic Book TranscreationsForgetting at the intersection of Comics and the Multimodal Novel: James Sie's Still Life Las Vegas My Favorite Thing is Monsters: The Socially Engaged Graphic Novel as a Platform for Intersectional FeminismPaper or Plastic?: Mapping the Transmedial Intersections of Comics and Action FiguresTransformative Architectures in Postcolonial Hong Kong ComicsAdaptation and Racial Representation in DellGold Key TV Tie-insCandy and Drugs for Dinner: Rat Queens, Genre, and Our Aesthetic CategoriesNon-Compliants, Brimpers, and She-Romps: Bitch Planet, Sex Criminals and Their PublicsLiterary Adaptations in Comics and Graphic NovelsSection 5: Comic Book Studies Yesterday, Today & TomorrowComic Studies in America: The Making of a Field of Scholarship?Next Issue: Anticipation and Promise in Comics StudiesComics Studies as InterdisciplineComics Studies as Practitioner-Scholar