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A comics studies reader

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A comics studies reader / edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester.
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.
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  • Heer, Jeet.
  • Worcester, Kent, 1959-
Description
xv, 380 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
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Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Why are comics still in search of cultural legitimization? / Thierry Groensteen -- Rodolphe Töpffer's aesthetic revolution / David Kunzle -- How comics came to be : through the juncture of word and image from magazine gag cartoons to newspaper strips, tools for critical appreciation plus rare seldom witnessed historical facts / Robert C. Harvey -- The "vulgar" comic strip / Gilbert Seldes -- Excerpt from Seduction of the innocent / Fredric Wertham -- William Gaines and the battle over EC Comics / Amy Kiste Nyberg -- The comics debates internationally / John A. Lent -- The definition of the superhero / Peter Coogan -- Two boys from the Twin Cities / M. Thomas Inge -- Caricature / David Carrier -- Beyond comparison / W.J.T. Mitchell -- The impossible definition / Thierry Groensteen -- An art of tensions / Charles Hatfield -- The arrow and the grid / Joseph Witek -- The construction of space in comics / Pascal Lefèvre -- The acoustics of Manga / Robert S. Petersen -- Ally Sloper : the first comics superstar? / Roger Sabin -- Jackie and the problem of romance / Martin Barker -- Home loving and without vices / Anne Rubenstein -- Autobiography as authenticity / Bart Beaty -- Manga versus Kibyōshi / Adam L. Kern -- Beyond Shoujo, blending gender / Fusami Ogi -- The innocents march into history / Ariel Dorfman -- The garden in the machine / Thomas Andrae -- An examination of "Master Race" / John Benson, David Kasakove, Art Spiegelman -- The comics of Chris Ware / Gene Kannenberg, Jr. -- Transcending comics : crossing the boundaries of the medium / Annalisa Di Liddo -- History and graphic representation in Maus / Hillary Chute.
Call Number
JFE 12-7278
ISBN
  • 9781604731088 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 1604731087 (cloth : alk. paper)
  • 9781604731095 (pbk. : alk. paper)
  • 1604731095 (pbk. : alk. paper)
LCCN
2008016893
OCLC
271773759
Title
A comics studies reader / edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester.
Imprint
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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Heer, Jeet.
Worcester, Kent, 1959-
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