Autore	Hescher Achim <1964->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	Berlin ; ; Boston : , : De Gruyter, , [2016]
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (228 pages) : illustrations
Disciplina	741.5/9
Collana	Narratologia. Contributions to narrative theory
Soggetto topico	Graphic novels - History and criticism Graphic novels - Authorship Narration (Rhetoric) Literary form
Soggetto non controllato	Prototypes focalization narrator subjectivity
ISBN	3-11-044539-5 3-11-044594-8
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Beginnings, Periods, Movements, and Developments -- 3. Graphic Novels and the Problem of Categorization -- 4. Verbal and Pictorial Narration in Graphic Novels -- 5. Taking Stock: The Graphic Novel as a Narrating Genre -- 6. Works Cited -- 7. Index of Primary Works
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910798168503321

Autore	Kukkonen Karin <1980->
Pubbl/distr/stampa	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
ISBN	1118499875 9781118499870
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910795822503321

Autore	Kukkonen Karin <1980->
Edizione	[1st ed.]
Pubbl/distr/stampa	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
ISBN	1118499875 9781118499870
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
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.
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910809004903321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Jackson, : University Press of Mississippi, 2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (342 p.)
Disciplina	741.5/9
Altri autori (Persone)	HatfieldCharles <1965-> HeerJeet WorcesterKent <1959->
Soggetto topico	Comic books, strips, etc - History and criticism Superheroes in literature Superheroes
Soggetto genere / forma	Electronic books.
ISBN	1-62103-954-4
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; I. HISTORICAL CONSIDERATIONS; Comics Predecessors; Men of Tomorrow; Gladiator; The Great Comic Book Heroes; The Comics and the Super State; The Superman Conceit; The Great Women Superheroes; Fandom and Authorship; II. THEORY AND GENRE; Literary Formulas; Crowds of Superheroes; The Epic Hero and Pop Culture; Masked Heroes; The Revisionary Superhero Narrative; Jack Kirby and the Marvel Aesthetic; Navigating Infinite Earths; A Song of the Urban Superhero; III. CULTURE AND IDENTITY; Wonder Woman; Invisible Girl; Love Will Bring You to Your Gift Batman, Deviance and CampColor Them Black; Comic Book Masculinity; The Punisher as Revisionist Superhero Western; Death Defying-Heroes; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910465694503321

Pubbl/distr/stampa	Chichester, West Sussex, U.K., : Wiley-Blackwell, c2013
Descrizione fisica	1 online resource (258 p.)
Disciplina	741.5/9
Altri autori (Persone)	WhiteMark D. <1971->
Collana	Blackwell Philosophy and Popculture Series
Soggetto topico	Superman (Fictitious character) Philosophy in literature Comic books, strips, etc - Moral and ethical aspects
ISBN	1-118-54182-0 1-118-58904-1 1-299-31376-0 1-118-54169-3
Formato	Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico	Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione	eng
Nota di contenuto	Superman and Philosophy: What Would the Man of Steel Do?; Copyright; Contents; Introduction: It's a Bird, It's a Plane ... It's Philosophy!; Part One The Big Blue Boy Scout: Ethics, Judgment, and Reason; 1 Moral Judgment: The Power That Makes Superman Human; The Trinity of Moral Philosophy; But Like Superpowers, Ethics Only Gets You So Far; Tragic Dilemma in Your Pocket (Universe); I'm Walkin', Yes Indeed; Superman Did What?; What Makes Superman Human; Notes; 2 Action Comics!: Superman and Practical Reason; It's Practically Reasonable; More Powerful Than a Locomotive; We Could Be Heroes ... Superman vs. the CalculatorFaster Than a Speeding Bullet; The Virtues of Being Super; So Whom Does He Save?; Notes; 3 Can the Man of Tomorrow Be the Journalist of Today?; The Face and the Voice; A Reporter's Story; The Reporter of Steel; Superman Confidential: Seek Truth and Report It; The Big Forget: Act Independently; Wicked Business! Minimize Harm; Fatal Flaw?; Notes; 4 Could Superman Have Joined the Third Reich?: The Importance and Shortcomings of Moral Upbringing; ... Or Not; The Moral Education of a Superman; Superman: Son of the Third Reich; In the End, Hitler Still Loses; Notes Part Two Truth, Justice, and the American Way: What Do They Mean?5 Clark Kent Is Superman!: The Ethics of Secrecy; What Is the Secret?; Superman for President!; The Secret Revealed!; Opening the Shirt; Letting in Lois; In the Vault; Notes; 6 Superman and Justice; It's All About Personal Liberty; Truth, Libertarian Justice, and the American Way; Great Rawls!; Behind the (Lead-Lined) Veil of Ignorance; Occupy Metropolis; Superman's Greatest Foe?; Notes; 7 Is Superman an American Icon?; Is Superman Giving Up on the American Way?; My Country, Right or Wrong-But Mostly Right Can Superman Be a Citizen of the World?Cosmopolitanism Then and Now; The Appearance of Impropriety; Act Locally, Think Globally; Notes; Part Three The Will to Superpower: Nietzsche, the Übermensch, and Existentialism; 8 Rediscovering Nietzsche's Übermensch in Superman as a Heroic Ideal; Truth, Justice, and the Nietzschean Way; Putting the Über into the Übermensch; The Nietzschean Superman; Superman vs. Clark Kent; S Is for Savior; Kneel Before Zod!; Perhaps ... Lex Luthor?; Nietzschean Übermensch, American Christ, or Both?; Notes; 9 Superman or Last Man: The Ethics of Superpower Survival of the WeakestIntroducing Superman-Whether We Need Him or Not; Waiting for Superman; Resignation Superman; Singer vs. Nietzsche; It Ain't Easy Being Blue; Is He Worth It?; Notes; 10 Superman: From Anti-Christ to Christ-Type; Übermensch as Anti-Christ; Lex Luthor: Super-Man?; Jesus Without the Christ; Moral Illumination; Trinitarian Movie Mythos; Is Superman Christ or a Christ-Type?; Seduction of the Innocent?; Notes; 11 Superman Must Be Destroyed!: Lex Luthor as Existentialist Anti-Hero; A Man Who Writes His Own Script; An Iconoclast; One Man Is an Island; The Anti-Hero of Faith Existentialists Gone Wild!
Record Nr.	UNINA-9910139058203321