Authors and Corporations: | , , |
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published: | London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2014. ©2013. |
Media Type: | Book, E-Book |
Physical Description: | 1 online resource (255 pages) |
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ISBN: |
9781441161468
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Edition: | 1st ed. |
Language: | English |
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Print version:: | Stein, Daniel, Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives, London : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc,c2014 |
Collection: | E-Books adlr |
This book brings together an international group of scholars who chart and analyze the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have negotiated the aesthetic, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across national borders in an increasingly interconnected and globalizing world. Exploring the tendencies of graphic narratives - from popular comic book serials and graphic novels to manga - to cross national and cultural boundaries, Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives addresses a previously marginalized area in comics studies. By placing graphic narratives in the global flow of cultural production and reception, the book investigates controversial representations of transnational politics, examines transnational adaptations of superhero characters, and maps many of the translations and transformations that have come to shape contemporary comics culture on a global scale. |
Cover Series Title Copyright Contents Notes on the Contributors Foreword Introducing Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives: Comics at the Crossroads Intersections: Comics and transnationalism-transnationalism and comics From an international to a transnational perspective Premises, promises, pitfalls Part I Politics and Poetics 1 Not Just a Theme: Transnationalism and Form in Visual Narratives of US Slavery 2 Transnational Identity as Shape-Shifting: Metaphor and Cultural Resonance in Gene Luen Yang's Introduction Cultural identity, metaphor, and embodiment Cultural allusions and resonances Conclusion 3 Cosmopolitan Suspicion: Comics Journalism and Graphic Silence Still life with children "Freedom is slavery": Guy Delisle "War is peace": Joe Sacco "Ignorance is strength": Jean-Philippe Stassen and Ari Folman Notes 4 Staging Cosmopolitanism: The Transnational Encounter in Joe Sacco's Joe Sacco as a civic model The encounter (I): Universal empathy The encounter (II): The violence of empathy The encounter (III): Cosmopolitan documentation 5 "Trying to Recapture the Front": A Transnational Perspective on Hawaii in R. Kikuo Johnson's Image and imagination in the construction of the exotic Society, ecology, and the search for roots 6 Folding Nations, Cutting Borders: Transnationalism in the Comics of Warren Craghead III Going transnational Crossing the Atlantic Folding the Arab Spring Conclusion Works cited Part II Transnational and Transcultural Superheroes 7 Batman Goes Transnational: The Global Appropriation and Distribution of an American Hero Introduction: On the scope of Batman as a transnational icon The Nightrunner primer Transcultural influence Transnational relations. Conclusion: The not-so-American icons 8 Spider-Man India: Comic Books and the Translating/ Transcreating of American Cultural Narratives The narratives of transnational and transcultural exchange Spider-Man and American/global identity Interrogating the transcreation of Spider-Man India The problematic transcreation of heroic origins Conclusion 9 Of Transcreations and Transpacific Adaptations: Investigating Manga Versions of Spider-Man Ryoichi Ikegami: Spider-Man the Manga Yamanaka Akira: Spider-Man J Kaare Andrews: Spider-Man Mangaverse Conclusion 10 Warren Ellis: Performing the Transnational Author in the American Comics Mainstream 11 "Truth, Justice, and the Islamic Way": Conceiving the Cosmopolitan Muslim Superhero in The 99 The making of a Muslim media franchise Fighting for truth, justice, international harmony, and cooperation The team-up as a transnational experience Part III Translations, Transformations, Migrations 12 Lost in Translation: Narratives of Transcultural Displacement in the Wordless Graphic Novel Comics and the wordless graphic novel Transnational silence Alienated and anonymous: The City Stranger in a strange land: Gods' Man Explicitly transnational: The Arrival A monstrous comic book: The Golem Conclusion 13 Hard-Boiled Silhouettes: Transnational Remediation and the Art of Omission in Frank Miller's Sin City Remediating film noir Remediating sound effects and wordless woodcuts Remediating silent film Conclusion 14 The "Big Picture" as a Multitude of Fragments: Jason Lutes's Depiction of Weimar Republic Berlin Out of many individuals: The multitude of stories Out of many comics: The multitude of styles E pluribus pluria 15 "Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together": The Cultural Crossovers of Bryan Lee O'Malley Works cited. 16 A Disappointing Crossing: The North American Reception of Asterix and Tintin From BD to comics Readers The dialectics of market and culture 17 Afterword: Framing, Unframing, Reframing: Retconning the Transnational Work of Comics Toward a media-theoretical backstory: The frame Of sequences, series, and states: Unframing and reframing Conclusion, or: To be continued . . . Index. |