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Record Nr.

UNINA9910956510003321

Titolo

Comics as philosophy / / edited by Jeff McLaughlin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2005

ISBN

1-60473-066-8

1-4294-6054-7

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (266 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

McLaughlinJeff <1962->

Disciplina

741.5/09

Soggetti

Comic books, strips, etc - Moral and ethical aspects

Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 228-235) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- What If? DC's Crisis and Leibnizian Possible Worlds -- Describing and Discarding " Comics" as an Impotent Act of Philosophical Rigor -- "No Harm in Horror" -- Truth Be Told -- Plato, Spider-Man and the Meaning of Life -- Modernity, Race, and the American Superhero -- Deconstructing the Hero -- Jean-Paul Sartre Meets Enid Coleslaw -- Making the Abstract Concrete -- The Good Government According to Tintin -- Drawn into 9/11, But Where Have All the Superheroes Gone? -- Contributors -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Through the combination of text and images, comic books offer a unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream superhero comics, to graphic novels of social realism, to European adventure classics.  Included among the contributions are essays on existentialism in Daniel Clowes's graphic novel "Ghost World," ecocriticism in Paul Chadwick's long-running "Concrete" series, and political philosophies in Herge's perennially popular "The Adventures of Tintin." Modern political concerns inform Terry Kading's discussion of how superhero comics have responded to 9/11 and how the genre reflects the anxieties of the contemporary world.  Essayists also explore the issues surrounding the development and appreciation of comics. Amy Kiste



Nyberg examines the rise of the Comics Code, using it as a springboard for discussing the ethics of censorship and child protection in America. Stanford W. Carpenter uses interviews to analyze how a team of Marvel artists and writers reimagined the origin of one of Marvel's most iconic superheroes, Captain America. Throughout, essayists in Comics as Philosophy show how well the form can be used by its artists and its interpreters as a means of philosophical inquiry. Jeff McLaughlin is assistant professor of philosophy at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia."

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Record Nr.

UNINA9910683353003321

Titolo

MultiMedia Modeling : 29th International Conference, MMM 2023, Bergen, Norway, January 9–12, 2023, Proceedings, Part I / / edited by Duc-Tien Dang-Nguyen, Cathal Gurrin, Martha Larson, Alan F. Smeaton, Stevan Rudinac, Minh-Son Dao, Christoph Trattner, Phoebe Chen

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2023

ISBN

9783031270772

9783031270765

Edizione

[1st ed. 2023.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (719 pages)

Collana

Lecture Notes in Computer Science, , 1611-3349 ; ; 13833

Disciplina

929.605

Soggetti

Computer vision

Machine learning

Pattern recognition systems

Social sciences - Data processing

Computer Vision

Machine Learning

Automated Pattern Recognition

Computer Application in Social and Behavioral Sciences

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.



Nota di contenuto

Multimedia content analysis -- multimedia signal processing and communications -- multimedia indexing -- multimedia mining -- multimedia abstraction and summarization -- multimedia annotation, tagging and recommendation -- media content browsing and retrieval tools -- multimedia security and content protection -- multimedia databases, content delivery and transport -- multi-camera and multi-view systems -- multimedia applications -- multimedia authoring and personalization -- interactive multimedia and interfaces -- media content drowsing and Retrieval Tools -- multimedia authoring and personalization -- emerging trends (multimedia research commercialisation, digital transformation.

Sommario/riassunto

The two-volume set LNCS 13833 and LNCS 13834 constitutes the proceedings of the 29th International Conference on MultiMedia Modeling, MMM 2023, which took place in Bergen, Norway, during January 9-12, 2023. The 86 papers presented in these proceedings were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 267 submissions. They focus on topics related to multimedia content analysis; multimedia signal processing and communications; and multimedia applications and services.