| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 264 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Contents |
Comic books, graphic novels, and their publics: introducing the comics world -- Chapter 1: The comics workforce / Benjamin Woo -- Chapter 2: The Melbourne scene: comics production, city spaces, and the creative industries / Amy Louise Maynard -- Chapter 3: Women and Asian comic art: gendered genres, female portrayals, and women cartoonists / John A. Lent -- Chapter 4: Bringing up manga: how editors in the 1920s and 1930s helped create contemporary Japanese comics / Eike Exner -- Chapter 5: Reshaping comic books in a socialist regime: Quimantú, Para leer al Pato Donald and the Chilean's comics world during Unidad Popular: (1971 -- 1973) / Ivan Lima Gomes -- Chapter 6: Whatever happened to the comics press? The slow rise and rapid fall of a niche media industry / Bart Beaty -- Chapter 7: "All that Shakespeare stuff": comic books and the public pedagogy of adaptation / Shari Sabeti -- Chapter 8: Learning to speak "without shame": a feminist response to gendered violence in Priya's Shakti / Valerie Wieskamp -- Chapter 9: The tribes of Comic-Con: continuity and change in the twenty-first-century fan culture / Rob Salkowitz -- Chapter 10: Comics and comic cons: finding the sense of community / T. Keith Edmunds -- Chapter 11: Follow the readers: leadership elections in the Silver-and-Bronze-Age legion of super-heroes / Christopher J. Galdieri -- Chapter 12: Not just superhero stories: comic book fandom as a resource in the cultural toolkit of life / Adriana Estrada Wilson -- Chapter 13: Pirates and publishers: comics scanning and the audience function / Kalervo A. Sinervo -- Chapter 14: Objectifying the objectifiers: academics in the comics world -- an interivew with Charles Hatfield and Franny Howes -- Contributors -- Index |
| Summary |
"Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp, Adriana Estrada Wilson, and Benjamin Woo The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection to explicitly examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. Designed to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about theory and methods in comics studies, this volume draws on approaches from fields as diverse as sociology, political science, history, folklore, communication studies, and business, among others, to study the social life of comics and graphic novels. Taking the concept of a "comics world"-that is, the collection of people, roles, and institutions that "produce" comics as they are-as its organizing principle, the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape how comics move through societies and cultures. Each chapter explores a specific comics world or particular site where comics meet one of their publics, such as artists and creators; adaptors; critics and journalists; convention-goers; scanners; fans; and comics scholars themselves. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some of the ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the relationships created in these spaces can provide different perspectives on comics and comics studies. Moving beyond the page, The Comics World explores the complexity of the lived reality of the comics world: how comics and graphic novels matter to different people at different times, within a social space shared with others"-- Provided by publisher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on September 02, 2021) |
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects.
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Graphic novels -- Social aspects
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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Graphic novels -- History and criticism
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects
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Graphic novels
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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Comics criticism.
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Essays.
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Critiques de bandes dessinées et de romans graphiques.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Woo, Benjamin, editor.
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Stoll, Jeremy, editor.
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| LC no. |
2021008784 |
| ISBN |
9781496834669 |
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1496834690 |
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9781496834676 |
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1496834666 |
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9781496834683 |
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1496834674 |
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9781496834690 |
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1496834682 |
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