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More Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods
$200.00In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics.
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More Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods
$65.99In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can…
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Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation
$200.00This volume attends to the physicality of superheroes: it examines how ideologies of race, gender and disability are signified or destabilized in the physicality of the superhero and presents an exploration of superheroes across multiple media forms including comics, film, television, literature and the graphic novel.
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Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives
$200.00This book provides readings of contemporary comics that depict, or that are produced by, artists and collectives resident in cities marked by histories of division and which continue to be shaped by ongoing forms of physical and cultural segregation.
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Contexts of Violence in Comics
$200.00This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts. Contexts of Violence in Comics asks the reader to consider the ways in which violence and its representations may be enabled or restricted by the contexts in which they…
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Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels
$72.99This book asserts that comics is not just a visual medium and outlines the multisensory aspects of comics: the visual, audible, tactile, olfactory and gustatory elements of the medium.
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Media and New Religions in Japan
$68.99The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781135117849, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license. Japanese “new religions” (shinshūkyō) have used various media forms for training, communicating with members, presenting their messages, reinforcing or protecting the image of the leader, and, potentially, attracting converts. In this book…
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Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels
$67.99Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don’t conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other…
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International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture
$70.99This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture. It features contributions from manga critics, educators, and researchers from both manga’s home country of Japan and abroad, looking at shojo and shojo manga’s influence…
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More Words about Pictures: Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People
$225.00With a Preface by Perry Nodelman, this book represents the current state of research on picturebooks and adjacent hybrid forms such as comics, graphic novels, and book apps for and about young people. It offers “more words” about various forms of picturebooks, exploring the current field and looking back over the history of picturebooks and…
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Japanese Popular Culture and Contents Tourism
$235.00Contents tourism is tourism induced by the contents (narratives, characters, locations and other creative elements) of films, novels, games, manga, anime, television dramas and other forms of popular culture. Focusing on both fan behaviours and the impacts on tourism destinations, this book provides insights into this rapidly-growing phenomenon in Japan.
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Empirical Comics Research: Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods
$200.00This edited volume brings together work in the field of empirical comics research. Drawing on computer and cognitive science, psychology and art history, linguistics and literary studies, each chapter presents innovative methods and establishes the practical and theoretical motivations for the quantitative study of comics, manga, and graphic novels. Individual chapters focus on corpus studies,…
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The Early Novels of Benjamin Disraeli Vol 4
$200.00Benjamin Disraeli (1804-81) was one of the most important political figures in 19th century Britain
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Graphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law
$225.00Establishing the medium of graphic fiction as a critical resource for interdisciplinary legal studies, this collection is the first to address the intersection of comics and law. Graphic fiction has gained enormous cultural capital and academic interest over recent years. Whether in their representations of lawyers and the legal system, their dystopian imaginations, their treatment…
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International Perspectives on Shojo and Shojo Manga: The Influence of Girl Culture
$225.00This collaborative book explores the artistic and aesthetic development of shojo, or girl, manga and discusses the significance of both shojo manga and the concept of shojo, or girl culture.