Spanish comics : historical and cultural perspectives / edited by Anne Magnussen.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Magnussen, Anne, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Comic books, strips, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (278 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, New York State : Berghahn Books, [2021]

Summary:

Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked outside of Spain. Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain since the early 1980s including the emergence of the graphic novel in 2000. Touching on themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history, the chapters in this collection demonstrate the historical and cultural significance of Spanish comics.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction: Spanish Comics Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Chapter 1 Dissenting Voices? Controlling Children’s Comics under Franco

Chapter 2 Satirical Panels against Censorship: A Battle That Raged during the Spanish Transition

Chapter 3 Tintin in the Movida madrileña: Gender and Sexuality in the Punk Comic Book Zine Scene

Chapter 4 From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth: Castelao in Galician Graphic Biography

Chapter 5 The Representation of Traumatic Memory in Spanish Comics: Remembering the Civil War and Francoism in Panels

Chapter 6 ‘For He Bestirred Himself to Protect the Land from the Moors’ Depicting the Medieval Reconquista in Modern Spanish Graphic Novels

Chapter 7 An Interview with Paco Roca

Chapter 8 ‘They Tried To Bury Us; They Didn’t Know We Were Seeds’ Intergenerational Memory and La casa

Chapter 9 Paco Roca’s Graphic Novel La casa (2015) as Architectural Elegy

Chapter 10 Therapeutic Journeys in Contemporary Spanish Graphic Novels

Chapter 11 Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age: Multimodal Extension in the Works of Aleix Saló

Chapter 12 Historicising the Emergence of Comics Art Scholarship in Spain, 1965–1975

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-80758-380-5

1-78920-998-6

OCLC:

1229923217