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Autore: |
Kukkonen Karin <1980->
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Titolo: |
Studying comics and graphic novels [[electronic resource] /] / Karin Kukkonen
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Pubblicazione: | Malden, Mass., : John Wiley & Sons Inc., 2013 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
Disciplina: | 741.5/9 |
Soggetto topico: | Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism |
Graphic novels - History and criticism | |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Introduction: How to Use This Book -- What This Book Holds -- Working Definitions -- 1. What's in a Page: Close-Reading Comics. Cognitive Processes and Critical Terms -- Navigating the Comics Page -- Entering the Storyworld and Meeting its Participants -- Comics Analysis: A Basic Checklist -- 2. The Way Comics Tell it: Narration and Narrators. Showing and Telling -- Story, Discourse, and Plot --The Narrator -- Narration, Focalization, and Point of View -- Narrative as Meaning-Making -- Graphic Narrative: A Basic Checklist -- 3. Narrating Minds and Bodies: Autobiographical Comics. Style and Subjectivity -- Autographic Agents -- Embodiment -- Self-Reflexivity -- Time, Story, and History -- Alternative Agendas and Authenticity -- 4. Novels and Graphic Novels: Adaptations. Transporting Stories -- Media Affordances and Adaptation Strategies -- Fidelity in Adaptation -- Literary Complexity -- The Page Revisited -- 5. Comics and Their History. The Beginnings of Comics History -- Precursors in Emergent Mass Culture -- Newspaper Comics (1900s-1930s) -- The Comic Book (1930-54) -- Comics Censorship (1954) -- Comics as Popular Culture -- Breaking the Code 1: Pop Art and Underground Comix -- Breaking the Code 2: The British Invasion -- 6. The Study and Criticism of Comics. Resources for Studying Comics -- Access to Comics Texts -- Critical Work on Comics -- Critical Approaches to Comics -- Comics Semiotics -- Comics Narratology -- Cognitive Approaches to Comics -- Historical and Auteurist Approaches -- Cultural Studies and Gender Studies -- Psychoanalysis -- How to Write Your Essay on Comics -- The Crime Scene --The Witnesses -- Making Your Case -- End Credits -- Conclusion: Comics as Literature -- Appendix: More Comics and Graphic Novels to Read -- Glossary. |
Sommario/riassunto: | This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout. |
Titolo autorizzato: | Studying comics and graphic novels ![]() |
ISBN: | 1118499875 |
9781118499870 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910795822503321 |
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