Keywords for comics studies / edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Shelley Streeby, and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth, editor.

Streeby, Shelley, 1963- editor.

Fawaz, Ramzi, editor.

Series:

Keywords (NY Press)

Keywords ; [12]

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Comic books, strips, etc.

Comic books, strips, etc--History and criticism.

Comic books, strips, etc--Encyclopedias.

Comic books, strips, etc--Terminology.

Genre:

Terminology.

Encyclopedias.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (v, 274 pages) : illustrations.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York University Press, [2021]

Summary:

"Across more than fifty essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art, and identifies new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first century. In an original twist on the NYU Keywords mission, the terms in this volume combine attention to the unique aesthetic practices of a distinct medium, comics, with some of the most fundamental concepts of the humanities broadly. Readers will see how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields-including media and film studies, queer and feminist theory, and critical race and transgender studies among others-take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics and more. To do so, Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of original and inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art, but traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative or aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms like trans*, disability, universe, and fantasy; genre terms, like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen and Love and Rockets. Written as much for students and lay readers as professors and experts in the field, Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction

1. Adaptation: Matt Yockey

2. Alternative: Charles Hatfield

3. Archie: Bart Beaty

4. Archive: Margaret Galvan

5. Border: Cathy Schlund- Vials

6. Caricature: Rebecca Wanzo

7. Cartoon: Michael Mark Cohen

8. Censorship: Amy Kiste Nyberg

9. Circulation: Benjamin Woo

10. Cognition: Michael Chaney and Sara Biggs Chaney

11. Comic Book: Jared Gardner

12. Comic Strip: Jessica Quick Stark

13. Comix: Nicholas Sammond

14. Cosplay: Ellen Kirkpatrick

15. Creator: Susan Kirtley

16. Disability: José Alaniz

17. Diversity: Frederick Luis Aldama

18. Documentary: Christopher Spaide

19. EC Comics: Nicholas Yanes

20. Fandom: Aaron Kashtan

21. Fantasy: Darieck Scott

22. Feminism: Yetta Howard

23. Form: Scott Bukatman

24. Funnies: Joshua Abraham Kopin

25. Gender: Ian Blechschmidt

26. Genre: Shelley Streeby

27. Graphic Novel: Tahneer Oksman

28. Gutter: Christopher Pizzino

29. Industry: Gregory Steirer

30. Ink: Stacey Robinson

31. Latinx: Isabel Millán

32. Love and Rockets: Enrique García

33. Lowbrow: Sean Guynes

34. Manga: Adam L. Kern

35. Memoir: Joo Ok Kim

36. Nostalgia: Blair Davis

37. Panel: Matt Silady

38. Pornography: Justin Hall

39. Print: Carol L. Tilley

40. Queer: Ramzi Fawaz, with Darieck Scott

41. Race: Jonathan W. Gray

42. Reader: Frank Bramlett

43. Sequence: Barbara Postema

44. Seriality: Osvaldo Oyola

45. Southern: Brannon Costello

46. Speculation: andré carrington

47. Superhero: Benjamin Saunders

48. Superman: Ian Gordon

49. Trans- /*: Cáel M. Keegan

50. Universe: Anthony Michael D’Agostino

51. Watchmen: Andrew Hoberek

52. Webcomics: Leah Misemer

53. Wonder Woman: Phil Jimenez

54. X-Men: Alexandro Segade

55. Zine: Mimi Thi Nguyen

Appendix.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781479862702

1479862703

OCLC:

1245669519