Studying comics and graphic novels
This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout. * Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of psychological and physical aspect...
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| Sprache: | Englisch |
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Chichester
WILEY
2013
Wiley Wiley Blackwell John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated Wiley-Blackwell |
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| ISBN: | 9781118499870, 1118499875, 111849993X, 9781118499931, 1118499921, 9781118499924, 1118499913, 9781118499917 |
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- Studying comics and graphic novels -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Use This Book -- 1. What's in a Page: Close-Reading Comics -- 2. The Way Comics Tell it: Narration and Narrators1 -- 3. Narrating Minds and Bodies: Autobiographical Comics -- 4. Novels and Graphic Novels: Adaptations -- 5. Comics and Their History -- 6. The Study and Criticism of Comics -- Conclusion -- Appendix: More Comics and Graphic Novels to Read -- Glossary -- Index
- Intro -- Studying Comics and Graphic Novels -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Use This Book -- What This Book Holds -- Working Definitions -- Recommended Reading -- References -- 1 What's in a Page: Close-Reading Comics -- Cognitive Processes and Critical Terms -- Navigating the Comics Page -- Entering the Storyworld and Meeting its Participants -- Comics Analysis - A Basic Checklist -- Note -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 2 The Way Comics Tell it: Narration and Narrators1 -- Showing and Telling -- Story, Discourse, and Plot -- The Narrator -- Narration, Focalization, and Point of View -- Narrative as Meaning-Making -- Graphic Narrative - A Basic Checklist -- Note -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 3 Narrating Minds and Bodies: Autobiographical Comics -- Style and Subjectivity -- Autographic Agents -- Embodiment -- Self-Reflexivity -- Time, Story, and History -- Alternative Agendas and Authenticity -- Note -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 4 Novels and Graphic Novels: Adaptations -- Transporting Stories -- Media Affordances and Adaptation Strategies -- Fidelity in Adaptation -- Literary Complexity -- The Page Revisited -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 5 Comics and Their History -- The Beginnings of Comics History -- Precursors in Emergent Mass Culture -- Newspaper Comics (1900s-1930s) -- The Comic Book (1930-54) -- Comics Censorship (1954) -- Comics as Popular Culture -- Breaking the Code 1: Pop Art and Underground Comix -- Breaking the Code 2: The British Invasion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 6 The Study and Criticism of Comics -- Resources for Studying Comics -- Access to Comics Texts -- Critical Work on Comics -- Critical Approaches to Comics -- Comics Semiotics
- Comics Narratology -- Cognitive Approaches to Comics -- Historical and Auteurist Approaches -- Cultural Studies and Gender Studies -- Psychoanalysis -- Recommended Reading -- References -- How to Write Your Essay on Comics -- The Crime Scene -- The Witnesses -- Making Your Case -- End Credits -- Recommended Reading -- Conclusion -- Comics as Literature -- References -- Appendix: More Comics and Graphic Novels to Read -- Glossary -- Index
- Intro -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Use This Book -- What This Book Holds -- Working Definitions -- Recommended Reading -- References -- 1 What's in a Page: Close-Reading Comics -- Cognitive Processes and Critical Terms -- Navigating the Comics Page -- Entering the Storyworld and Meeting its Participants -- Note -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 2 The Way Comics Tell it: Narration and Narrators1 -- Showing and Telling -- Story, Discourse, and Plot -- The Narrator -- Narration, Focalization, and Point of View -- Narrative as Meaning-Making -- Note -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 3 Narrating Minds and Bodies: Autobiographical Comics -- Style and Subjectivity -- Autographic Agents -- Embodiment -- Self-Reflexivity -- Time, Story, and History -- Alternative Agendas and Authenticity -- Note -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 4 Novels and Graphic Novels: Adaptations -- Transporting Stories -- Media Affordances and Adaptation Strategies -- Fidelity in Adaptation -- Literary Complexity -- The Page Revisited -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 5 Comics and Their History -- The Beginnings of Comics History -- Precursors in Emergent Mass Culture -- Newspaper Comics (1900s-1930s) -- The Comic Book (1930-54) -- Comics Censorship (1954) -- Comics as Popular Culture -- Breaking the Code 1: Pop Art and Underground Comix -- Breaking the Code 2: The British Invasion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 6 The Study and Criticism of Comics -- Resources for Studying Comics -- Critical Approaches to Comics -- Recommended Reading -- Recommended Reading -- References -- How to Write Your Essay on Comics -- Recommended Reading -- Conclusion -- Comics as Literature -- References
- Appendix: More Comics and Graphic Novels to Read -- Glossary -- Index