Comics as philosophy / / edited by Jeff McLaughlin

• Pubblicazione: Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2005
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (266 p.)
• Disciplina: 741.5/09
• Soggetto topico: Comic books, strips, etc - Moral and ethical aspects; Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism
• Altri autori: McLaughlinJeff <1962->
• 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."
• Titolo autorizzato: Comics as philosophy
• ISBN: 1-60473-066-8; 1-4294-6054-7
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910956510003321
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