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A comics studies reader
- Title
- A comics studies reader / edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester.
- Publication
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2009.
- Supplementary Content
- Table of contents
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- xv, 380 p. : ill.; 25 cm.
- Subject
- 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.
- Connect to:
- Added Author
- Heer, Jeet.Worcester, Kent, 1959-
- Research Call Number
- JFE 12-7278