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A Comics Studies Reader. Edited by Jeet Heer
and
Kent Worcester. Jackson,
MS: University Press of Mississippi, 2008. 304pp.
Paperback: ISBN-10: 1604731095
|| ISBN-13: 978-1604731095
Hardcover: ISBN-10:
1604731087 || ISBN-13:
978-1604731088
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Library of Congress: PN6710 .A84 2004 ||
Dewey: 741.5/09 22
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Publisher's Description
A Comics
Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics
scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics
forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books,
manga, and graphic novels.
The anthology covers the pioneering work of
Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the
graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, romance
comics, and superheroes. It explores the stylistic achievements of
manga, the international anti-comics campaign, and power and class in
Mexican comic books and English illustrated stories.
A
Comics Studies Reader introduces readers to the major
debates and points of reference that continue to shape the field. It
will interest anyone who wants to delve deeper into the world of comics
and is ideal for classroom use.
(01) Introduction - Jeet
Heer and Kent Worcester
(02) Thierry Groensteen
- “Why are Comics Still in Search of Cultural
Legitimization?”
(03) Historical
Considerations
(04) David Kunzle -
“Rodolphe Töpffer’'s Aesthetic Revolution”
(05) Robert C. Harvey -
“How Comics Came to Be”
(06) Gilbert Seldes -
“The ‘Vulgar’ Comic Strip”
(07) Fredric Wertham -
“excerpt from Seduction
of the Innocent
(08) Amy Kiste Nyberg -
“William Gaines and the Battle over EC Comics”
(09) John Lent - “The
Comics Debates Internationally”
(10) Peter Coogan - “The
Definition of the Superhero”
(11) M. Thomas Inge -
“Two Boys from the Twin Cities”
(12) Craft, Art,
Form
(13) David Carrier -
Caricature”
(14) W.J.T. Mitchell -
“Beyond Comparison”
(15) Thierry Groensteen
- “The Impossible Definition”
(16) Charles Hatfield -
“An Art of Tensions”
(17) Joseph Witek - “The
Arrow and the Grid”
(18) Pascal Lefèvre
- ““The Construction of Space in Comics”
(19) Robert S. Petersen
- “The Acoustics of Manga”
(20) Culture,
Narrative, Identity
(21) Roger Sabin - “Ally
Sloper: The First Comics Superstar?”
(22) Martin Barker -
“Jackie and the Problem of Romance”
(23) Anne Rubenstein -
“Home Loving and Without Vices”
(24) Bart Beaty -
“Autobiography as Authenticity”
(25) Adam Kern - “Manga
versus Kibyôshi”
(26) Fusami Ogi -
“Beyond Shoujo, Blending Gender”
(27) Scrutiny and
Evaluation
(28) Ariel Dorfman -
“The Innocents March into History”
(29) Thomas Andrae -
“The Garden in the Machine”
(30) John Benson, David Kasakove, Art
Spiegelman - An Examination of ‘"Master Race"’”
(31) Gene Kannenberg, Jr.
- ““The Comics of Chris Ware”
(32) Annalisa Di Liddo -
“Crossing the Boundaries of the Medium”
(33) Hillary Chute -
“History and Graphic Representation in Maus”
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