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veröffentlicht: |
Oxford
Oxford University Press USA - OSO
2020
©2020 |
Teil von: |
Oxford Handbooks Ser. |
Medientyp: | Buch, E-Book |
Beschreibung: | Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources |
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Umfang: | 1 online resource (745 pages) |
ISBN: |
9780190917968
0190917962 |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Teil von: |
Oxford Handbooks Ser. |
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Weitere Ausgaben: | The Oxford handbook of comic book studies |
Kollektion: | Verbunddaten SWB |
The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies examines the history and evolution of the visual narrative genre from a global perspective. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds. Cover -- Comic Book Studies -- Copyright -- Contents -- Contributors -- Our World Republic of Comics: An Introduction -- Works Cited -- Part I: Is a Comic? -- Chapter 1: What Kind of Studies Is Comics Studies? -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 2: Why There Is No "Language of Comics" -- What is Language in the First Place? -- Types of Language -- Natural Languages -- Artificial Languages -- Language Acquisition and Modalities -- Standard Languages and Dialects -- Multilingual Comics and Translations -- Language as Social Interaction -- Politeness and Politeness Strategies -- Speech Act Theory -- Conversation -- If Comics Aren't Language, Then What Are They? -- Note -- Works Cited -- Dictionaries Consulted -- Chapter 3: In Box: Rethinking Text in the Digital Age -- Reading the Speech Bubble -- Reading "Speech Bubble" -- On Reading and Being Close -- Works Cited -- Chapter 4: What Else Is a Comic?: Between Bayeux and Beano -- Processions -- Curtains -- Staircase -- Calendars -- Wheels -- Decks -- Works Cited -- Chapter 5: Reading Spaces: The Politics of Page Layout -- Sequence versus Space -- Fundamental Studies of Page Layout -- The Location of Space -- Fun Home: Home on the Grid -- Baddawi: Weaving between the Lines -- Red: A Haida Deconstruction of the Book -- Politicizing Art . . . of the Page -- Works Cited -- Chapter 6: Comics as Art -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Chapter 7: The Cartoon on the Comics Page: A Phenomenology -- Line: Creatorship and Otherness -- Shape: Iconicity as Specificity -- Construction: Visible Parts, Indivisible Whole -- Character: Signifier as Referent -- Value: Aura through Reproduction -- Relation: Hyper-Exteriority and Hyper-Interiority -- Perspective: Between Planar Grid and Curved Surface -- Sequence: Variation as Validation -- Notes -- Works Cited. |