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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255241803321

Autore

Beaty Bart

Titolo

The Greatest Comic Book of All Time : Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books / / by Bart Beaty, Benjamin Woo

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Palgrave Macmillan US : , : Imprint : Palgrave Pivot, , 2016

ISBN

9781137531629

1137531622

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (163 p.)

Collana

Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels, , 2634-6389

Disciplina

741.5973

Soggetti

Communication

Ethnology - America

Culture

Film genres

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Media and Communication

American Culture

Genre Studies

Contemporary Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di contenuto

1 What If The Greatest Comic Book of All Time Were... -- 2 Maus by Art Spiegelman? -- 3 A Short Story by Robert Crumb? -- 4 A Superhero Story by Jack Kirby? -- 5 Written by Alan Moore? -- 6 The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James -- 7 By Rob Liefeld? -- 8 An Archie Comic? -- 9 Not by a White Man? -- 10 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi? -- 11 Dave Sim's Cerebus? -- 12 Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?.                                                                                                                                  .

Sommario/riassunto

This book offers a series of short, provocative essays about value and reputation in the world of American comic books. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's analyses of fields of cultural production, The Greatest Comic Book of All Time explores why works have the reputations that they do and what it might take to re-structure the comics world along different



principles.                                                                                                                          .