Bibliographische Detailangaben
Beteiligte: Aldama, Frederick Luis
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Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated, 2020.
©2020.
Teil von: Oxford Handbooks Series
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Umfang: 1 online resource (745 pages)
ISBN: 9780190917968
Ausgabe: 1st ed.
Sprache: Englisch
Teil von: Oxford Handbooks Series
Schlagwörter:
Print version:: Aldama, Frederick Luis, The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies, Oxford : Oxford University Press, Incorporated,c2020
Kollektion: E-Books adlr
Inhaltsangabe

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.
Chapter 8: All By Myself: Single-Panel Comics and the Question of Genre
Party of One: Single-Panel Comics in US Comics History
Single and Fabulous: One-Panel Comics as Comics
Note
Works Cited
Chapter 9: Drawing, Redrawing, and Undrawing
Drawing
Redrawing
Undrawing
Notes
Works Cited
Part II: Comics as Social Commentary and Response to Sociopolitical Realities
Chapter 10: Bakhtinian Laughter and Recent Political Editorial Cartoons
Gado's Doodled Humanity Laughs at Epic Corruption to Produce Contemporaneity
Doaa El-Adl's Woman as the Individual of the Comic's Inquiry into Danger and Threat
Bonil's Marked Figureheads as Crowned Sacrifices and De-Crowned Statuary
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 11: Columbia and the Editorial Cartoon
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 12: Efficacy of Social Commentary through Cartooning
Works Cited
Chapter 13: Radical Graphics: Australian Second-Phase Comics
Australian Academic Studies of Comics, 1950-1970
Reconstructing Australian Comics History
Comix Go Underground
Alternative Comics and Comics Fandom
Pushing Genre Boundaries
Radical (Re)education
Works Cited
Chapter 14: Self-Regulation and Self-Censorship: Comics Creators in Czechoslovakia and Communist Eastern Bloc
Join the Cause-Join the Czech Youth Union
Distrust the Balloons
Meek and Submissive Comics of 1948-1989
Some Other Self-Censoring Strategies
A Call for More Nuanced Interpretation
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 15: This Is Who I Am: Hybridity and Materiality in Comics Memoir
Reclaiming
Hybridity
Materiality
Works Cited
Chapter 16: Auto/biographics and Graphic Histories Made for the Classroom: Logicomix and Abina and the Important Men
Introduction: Comics in the Classroom
Auto/biographics and the Learning Objectives of Disciplines.
Central Features of Auto/biographics
The Formal Features of Visual/Textual Interfaces, or Visual Literacy
The Ethics of Auto/Biographical Reading
Explicitly Pedagogical Comics: Abina and the Important Men
Comics Implicitly for Classroom Use: Logicomix
Concluding Questions
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 17: Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxersand Saints
Note
Works Cited
Part III: key Issues Incomics
Chapter 18: Irony, Ethics, and Lyric Narrative in Miriam Engelberg's Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person
Engelberg's Ironies and Their Ethical Dimensions
Engelberg's Lyric-Narrative Hybrid and Its Ending
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 19: Animals in Graphic Narrative
Note
Works Cited
Chapter 20: The Diversionary Art of Zeina Abirached in Le piano oriental
The Art of Crossing the Affrontier in the Graphic Novel1
Le Déhanchement
Le Tricotage
The Detour of Fiction
At Home in the Languages and Images of Multicultural Comics
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 21: Disco, Derby, andDrag: The Queer Politics of Marvel's Dazzler
Queer Reading Practices and Their Discontents
Grace Jones and the Disco Origins of Alison Blaire
"Going Gaga": Fame, Excess, and the Politics of Visibility
"The Beast in the Closet": Strange Heterosexualities and Weird Romance
"Femme" Fatale: Derby Culture and the "Un-Queering" of Dazzler
Yas (Drag) Queen: Punk Aesthetics and the Dazzler Thor
Ali the Ally: Mutant Pride and the Limits of Solidarity
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 22: The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender, and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics
White Men with Power
All-New, All-Different
Being Replaced
Works Cited
Chapter 23: Hammer in Hand: Feminist Community Building in Jason Aaron's Thor
Notes
Works Cited.
Chapter 24: When Feminism Went to Market Issues in Feminist Anthology Comics of the 1980s and '90s
"Be an Action Girl": Feminist Collecting, Curating, and Community Building in the Comics Marketplace
In the Archives with Action Girl: The Afterlives of Feminist Comics
Works Cited
Chapter 25: Children in Comics: Between Education and Entertainment, Conformity and Agency
Fluid Media Contexts and Changing Readerships
Struwwelpeter's Far-Reaching Influence
Commercialized Kids
The Beano: Stereotyping and Queering, Companionship, and Education
Works Cited
Chapter 26: I'm Not a Kid. I'm aShark!: Identity Fluidity in Noelle Stevenson's Young-Adult Graphic Novels
Notes
Works Cited
Part IV: Comic Book Transcreations
Chapter 27: Forgetting at the Intersection of Comics and the Multimodal Novel: James Sie's Still Life Las Vegas
Anamorphosis, or, the Poetics of Remembering That Is Also Forgetting
Visuality and Tellability in Sie's Model of Forgetting
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 28: My Favorite Thing Is Monsters: The Socially Engaged Graphic Novel as a Platform for Intersectional Feminism
Form and Structure: The Diary of a Precocious Werewolf-Detective
Rewriting Histories of Genocide: Maus as Foundational Intertext
Fun Home: Queering the Bildungsroman
Persepolis: Race, Gender, and Migration
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 29: Paper or Plastic? Mapping theTransmedial Intersections of Comics and Action Figures
Of Wood, Rubber, China, and Chalk: Character Toys, Comic-Book Thrills, and the Prehistory of the Action Figure
Dress Your Own Adventure: Postwar Gender-Performing Toys
The Play's a Thing: Star Wars and High-Concept Franchise Toys
Redub Revolution: Action-Figured Comics and Toys in the 1990s
Retro Paradiso: New Forms, Global Markets, and Variant Futures.
The Stuff That Dupes Are Made Of?
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 30: Transformative Architectures in Postcolonial Hong Kong Comics
Hong Kong Comics
An Introduction to Harbor Heroes
Hybridity
Character: Buildings/Robots
Hybrid Themes: Politics and Nostalgia
Parody
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 31: Adaptation and Racial Representation in Dell/Gold Key TV Tie-ins
History of Dell and Gold Key Comics
Methodology
Style
Social and Cultural Issues
Lingering Questions
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 32: Candy and Drugs for Dinner Rat Queens, Genre, and Our Aesthetic Categories
Genre and Aesthetics in Comics Criticism
Fantasy and Comics: Contextualizing Rat Queens
Rat Queens and Our Aesthetic Categories
Coda: Image, Industry, and Aesthetics
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 33: Non-Compliants, Brimpers, and She-Romps: Bitch Planet, Sex Criminals, and Their Publics
Feminist Exploitation?
Comic-Book Publics
How Bitching Might Change Things
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 34: Literary Adaptations in Comics and Graphic Novels
Adaptation and the F-Word: Fidelity
A Very Short History of Literary Adaptations in Comics and Graphic Novels
Two (and a Half) Basic Tendencies of Literary Adaptation?
The Resistance to Literary Adaptations
Note
Works Cited
Part V: Comic Book Studies Yesterday, Today &amp
Tomorrow
Chapter 35: Comics Studies in America: The Making of a Field of Scholarship?
Methodology
The Five Books and Pre-2000 Works on Comics
The Five Books and Post-2000 Works on Comics
142 Works and Top "Twenties": The Ins and Outs of Comics Scholarship
Notes
Works Cited
Chapter 36: Next Issue: Anticipation and Promise in Comics Studies
An Opening Caveat
A Snapshot of What Is Being Studied
Emerging Areas of Study.
The Potential for Cross-Fertilization.