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The Comics World : Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics
Title
The Comics World : Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics / edited by Benjamin Woo and Jeremy Stoll.
ISBN
9781496834690
9781496834645
9781496834652
Publication
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, [2021]
Manufacture
Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2021
Copyright Notice Date
©[2021]
Physical Description
1 online resource (286 pages): illustrations, maps
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Access is available to the Yale community.
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Description based on print version record.
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Summary
"Contributions by Bart Beaty, T. Keith Edmunds, Eike Exner, Christopher J. Galdieri, Ivan Lima Gomes, Charles Hatfield, Franny Howes, John A. Lent, Amy Louise Maynard, Shari Sabeti, Rob Salkowitz, Kalervo A. Sinervo, Jeremy Stoll, Valerie Wieskamp, Adriana Estrada Wilson, and Benjamin Woo The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection to explicitly examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. Designed to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about theory and methods in comics studies, this volume draws on approaches from fields as diverse as sociology, political science, history, folklore, communication studies, and business, among others, to study the social life of comics and graphic novels. Taking the concept of a "comics world"-that is, the collection of people, roles, and institutions that "produce" comics as they are-as its organizing principle, the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape how comics move through societies and cultures. Each chapter explores a specific comics world or particular site where comics meet one of their publics, such as artists and creators; adaptors; critics and journalists; convention-goers; scanners; fans; and comics scholars themselves. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some of the ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the relationships created in these spaces can provide different perspectives on comics and comics studies. Moving beyond the page, The Comics World explores the complexity of the lived reality of the comics world: how comics and graphic novels matter to different people at different times, within a social space shared with others"-- Provided by publisher.
Variant and related titles
Project MUSE complete collection 2021.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
July 17, 2023
Contents
Comic books, graphic novels, and their publics: introducing the comics world
Chapter 1: The comics workforce / Benjamin Woo
Chapter 2: The Melbourne scene: comics production, city spaces, and the creative industries / Amy Louise Maynard
Chapter 3: Women and Asian comic art: gendered genres, female portrayals, and women cartoonists / John A. Lent
Chapter 4: Bringing up manga: how editors in the 1920s and 1930s helped create contemporary Japanese comics / Eike Exner
Chapter 5: Reshaping comic books in a socialist regime: Quimantú, Para leer al Pato Donald and the Chilean's comics world during Unidad Popular: (1971
1973) / Ivan Lima Gomes
Chapter 6: Whatever happened to the comics press? The slow rise and rapid fall of a niche media industry / Bart Beaty
Chapter 7: "All that Shakespeare stuff": comic books and the public pedagogy of adaptation / Shari Sabeti
Chapter 8: Learning to speak "without shame": a feminist response to gendered violence in Priya's Shakti / Valerie Wieskamp
Chapter 9: The tribes of Comic-Con: continuity and change in the twenty-first-century fan culture / Rob Salkowitz
Chapter 10: Comics and comic cons: finding the sense of community / T. Keith Edmunds
Chapter 11: Follow the readers: leadership elections in the Silver-and-Bronze-Age legion of super-heroes / Christopher J. Galdieri
Chapter 12: Not just superhero stories: comic book fandom as a resource in the cultural toolkit of life / Adriana Estrada Wilson
Chapter 13: Pirates and publishers: comics scanning and the audience function / Kalervo A. Sinervo
Chapter 14: Objectifying the objectifiers: academics in the comics world
an interivew with Charles Hatfield and Franny Howes
Contributors
Index.
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