Comics and Graphic Novels
Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades. Interdisciplinary and international in its scope, the critical approaches on offer spread across a wide range of strands, from the formal and the ideological to the historical, literary and cultural.

Its concise chapters provide accessible introductions to comics methodologies, comics histories and cultures across the world, high-profile creators and titles, insights from audience and fan studies, and important themes and genres, such as autobiography and superheroes. It also surveys the alternative and small press alongside general reference works and textbooks on comics. Each chapter is complemented by list of key reference works.

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Comics and Graphic Novels
Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades. Interdisciplinary and international in its scope, the critical approaches on offer spread across a wide range of strands, from the formal and the ideological to the historical, literary and cultural.

Its concise chapters provide accessible introductions to comics methodologies, comics histories and cultures across the world, high-profile creators and titles, insights from audience and fan studies, and important themes and genres, such as autobiography and superheroes. It also surveys the alternative and small press alongside general reference works and textbooks on comics. Each chapter is complemented by list of key reference works.

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Comics and Graphic Novels

Comics and Graphic Novels

Comics and Graphic Novels

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Providing an overview of the dynamic field of comics and graphic novels for students and researchers, this Essential Guide contextualises the major research trends, debates and ideas that have emerged in Comics Studies over the past decades. Interdisciplinary and international in its scope, the critical approaches on offer spread across a wide range of strands, from the formal and the ideological to the historical, literary and cultural.

Its concise chapters provide accessible introductions to comics methodologies, comics histories and cultures across the world, high-profile creators and titles, insights from audience and fan studies, and important themes and genres, such as autobiography and superheroes. It also surveys the alternative and small press alongside general reference works and textbooks on comics. Each chapter is complemented by list of key reference works.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781350336094
Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date: 10/20/2022
Series: Readers' Guides to Essential Criticism
Pages: 280
Product dimensions: 5.40(w) x 8.45(h) x 0.75(d)

About the Author

Dr Julia Round is a Principal Lecturer at Bourbanemouth University, UK. Her books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019).

Dr Rikke Platz Cortsen is Assistant Professor at University College Copenhagen, Denmark. Her research focuses on time and space in comics and the way identity is intertwined with place in contemporary Nordic comics. She co-edited the research anthology Comics and Power (2015).

Dr Maaheen Ahmed is Associate Professor at Ghent University, Belgium and principal investigator of COMICS, a multi-researcher project funded by the European Research Council.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Introduction
Part 1: Approaching Comics
Chapter 2: Formalist Approaches
Chapter 3: Ideological and Material Approaches
Part 2: Histories and Cultures
Chapter 4: Early Criticism and Legitimation
Chapter 5: Historical Approaches
Part 3: Production and Reception
Chapter 6: Creators, Imprints and Titles
Chapter 7: Audiences and Fan Cultures
Part 4: Themes and Genres
Chapter 8: Thematic Approaches
Chapter 9: Popular Genres
Chapter 10: Outside the Mainstream
Chapter 11: General Reference Guides and Textbooks
Chapter 12: Conclusion

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