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Author Gardner, Jared

Title Projections : Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling
Published Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (241 pages)
Series Post 45
Post 45.
Contents Preface; 1. Fragments of Modernity, 1889-1920; 2. Serial Pleasures, 1907-1938; 3. Fan-Addicts and the Comic Book, 1938-1955; 4. First-Person Graphic, 1959-2010; 5. Archives and Collectors, 1990-2010; 6. Coda: Comics, Film, and the Future of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling; Notes; Index
Summary When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year. Projections argues that the seemingly sudden visibility of comics is no accident. Beginning with the parallel development of narrative comics at the turn of the 20th century, comics have long been a form that invites--indeed req
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 195-213) and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Comic books, strips, etc. -- United States -- History and criticism
Motion pictures and comic books -- United States
Narration (Rhetoric)
Comic books, strips, etc.
Motion pictures and comic books.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Bandes dessinées -- États-Unis -- 1870-1914 -- Histoire et critique.
Bandes dessinées -- États-Unis -- 20e siècle -- Histoire et critique.
Cinéma et bandes dessinées -- États-Unis.
Narration.
United States.
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804781787
0804781788