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The Cambridge companion to comics / edited by Maaheen Ahmed.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cambridge companions to literature.
- Cambridge companions to literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.
- Comic books, strips, etc.
- Graphic novels--History and criticism.
- Graphic novels.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xviii, 386 pages) : illustrations (black and white), digital, PDF file(s).
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Other Title:
- Companion to comics
- Comics
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This volume provides readers with the histories and theories necessary for studying comics. Individual chapters explore comics through several key aspects, including drawing, serialities, adaptations, and transmedia storytelling. It offers close, interdisciplinary readings of vital works, covering more than a century of comics production.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Half-title
- Title page
- Copyright information
- Contents
- List of Figures
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Chronology
- Introduction: Bridging Gaps
- Part I Forms
- Chapter 1 Comics Drawing: A (Poly)Graphic History
- Chapter 2 Comics, Media Culture, and Seriality
- Chapter 3 Comics and Graphic Novels
- Chapter 4 Manga: An Affective Form of Comics
- Chapter 5 Digital Comics: An Old/New Form
- Part II Readings
- Chapter 6 Comics and Multimodal Storytelling
- Chapter 7 Comics Adaptations: Fidelity and Creativity
- Chapter 8 Comics Genres: Cracking the Codes
- Chapter 9 Life Writing in Comics
- Chapter 10 Racialines: Interrogating Stereotypes in Comics
- Chapter 11 Women and Comics: Politics and Materialities
- Chapter 12 Comics at the Limits of Narration
- Part III Uses
- Chapter 13 Comics and Their Archives
- Chapter 14 Readers and Fans: Lived Comics Cultures
- Chapter 15 Comics in the Museum
- Chapter 16 Comics in Libraries
- Chapter 17 ''Educationally Occupied'': Learning with Comics
- Further Reading
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (viewed on September 7, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 9781009255707
- 1009255703
- 9781009255660
- 1009255665
- 9781009255653
- 1009255657
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