Breaking the Frames : : Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies / / Marc Singer.
Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on the populist rhetoric of cultural studies. As a result, comics studies has begun to clea...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter University of Texas Press Complete eBook-Package 2018 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Austin : : University of Texas Press, , [2021] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction Series
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (292 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION POW! ZAP! COMICS AREN’T JUST FOR CULTURAL STUDIES PROFESSORS ANYMORE
- CHAPTER 1 THE MYTH OF ECO: COMICS, CONTINUITY, AND CULTURAL POPULISM
- CHAPTER 2 THE ABUSES OF HISTORY: POSTMODERNISM AND CONTEMPORARY SUPERHERO COMICS
- CHAPTER 3 PROPERTIES OF THE IMAGINATION COPYRIGHT AND EMPIRE IN THE LEAGUE OF EXTRAORDINARY GENTLEMEN
- CHAPTER 4 THE LIMITS OF REALISM ALTERNATIVE COMICS AND THE WORKSHOP AESTHETIC
- CHAPTER 5 COMICS STUDIES IN MINIATURE THE CANONIZATION OF PERSEPOLIS
- CHAPTER 6 SHADOWS OF THE PAST FICTIONS OF HISTORY IN NAT TURNER
- AFTERWORD NEVER APOLOGIZE, NEVER DEFEND
- NOTES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX