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Contexts of violence in comics / edited by Ian Hague, Ian Horton and Nina Mickwitz.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Routledge advances in comics studies
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Graphic novels--History and criticism.
- Graphic novels.
- Violence in literature.
- Genre:
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 204 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York, NY : Routledge, 2020.
- Summary:
- "This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Doing justice to the past through the representation of violence : three and ancient Sparta / Lynn Fotheringham
- Comics do not forget : historical memory and experiences of violence in the Spanish Civil War and early Francoism / Enrique del Rey Cabero
- Legacies of war : remembering prisoner of war experiences in French comic books about the Second World War / Claire Gorrara
- "I think we're maybe more or less safe here" : violence and solidarity during the Lebanese civil war in Zeina Abirached's A game for swallows / Mihaela Precup
- In a growing violent temper : the Swedish comic market during World War II / Michael F. Scholz
- Will Eisner and the art of war : educational comics in the American defence industry / Malin Bergström
- Bringing the war back home : reflecting violence in Brian Wood's DMZ / Jörn Ahrens
- Infrastructural violence : urbicide, public space, and postwar reconstruction in recent Lebanese graphic memoirs / Dominic Davies
- The lives of others : figuring grievability and justice in contemporary comics and graphic novels / Golnar Nabizadeh
- Scales of violence, scales of justice, and Nate Powell's Any empire / Alex Link
- Oink : the story of a dangerously funny comic / David Huxley.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Online version: Contexts of violence in comics
- ISBN:
- 9781138484504
- 1138484504
- OCLC:
- 1080883927
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