| Authors and Corporations: | , |
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| published: | Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021. ©2021. |
| Media Type: | Book, E-Book |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (277 pages) |
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| ISBN: |
9781496834690
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| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
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| Print version:: | Woo, Benjamin, The Comics World, Jackson : University Press of Mississippi,c2021 |
| Collection: | E-Books adlr |
A thoroughly researched collection designed to engage with the social sciences in order to expand comics studies as a field. |
| Cover The Comics World Title Copyright Contents Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics Introducing the Comics World Part 1. Production 1. The Comics Workforce 2. The Melbourne Scene Comics Production, City Spaces, and the Creative Industries 3. Women and Asian Comic Art Gendered Genres, Female Portrayals, and Women Cartoonists 4. Bringing Up Manga How Editors in the 1920s and 1930s Helped Create Contemporary Japanese Comics 5. Reshaping Comic Books in a Socialist Regime Quimantú, Para leer al Pato Donald and the Chilean Comics World during Unidad Popular (1971-1973) Part 2. Circulation 6. Whatever Happened to the Comics Press? The Slow Rise and Rapid Fall of a Niche Media Industry 7. "All That Shakespeare Stuff" Comic Books and the Public Pedagogy of Adaptation 8. Learning to "Speak without Shame" A Feminist Response to Gendered Violence in Priya's Shakti 9. The Tribes of Comic-Con Continuity and Change in the Twenty-First-Century Fan Culture Part 3. Reception 10. Comics and Comic Cons Finding the Sense of Community 11. Follow the Readers Leadership Elections in the Silver- and Bronze-Age Legion of Super-Heroes 12. Not Just Superhero Stories Comic Book Fandom as a Resource in the Cultural Toolkit of Life 13. Pirates and Publishers Comics Scanning and the Audience Function 14. Objectifying the Objectifiers Academics in the Comics World Contributors. |