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While manga is now a well known entity in the global publishing scene, the medium’s international success has its roots in the realm of eros. Japanese media critic Kimi Rito dives into the history of manga’s erotic world a genre known internationally simply as – hentai. What are the origins of hentai? How has it…
Hellboy, Mike Mignola’s famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy’s World shows how our engagement with Hellboy’s world is a highly aestheticized encounter with comics and their materiality. Scott Bukatman’s dynamic study explores how comics produce a heightened “adventure…
The zombie craze has infected popular culture with the intensity of a viral outbreak, propagating itself through text, television, film, video games, and many other forms of media. As a metaphor, zombies may represent political notions, such as the return of the repressed violence of colonialism, or the embodiment of a culture obsessed with consumerism….
You need some Wonder Woman in your life! Fighting for our rights! Through the years Wonder Woman has shown us to be proud of who we truly are. To stand joyfully for principles that form our very hearts and who we want to be. To take a moment before using violence to solve a problem,…
She’s the Amazing Amazon! The celebrated champion of her people! She’s WONDER WOMAN! And she’s the greatest superhero this world has ever seen. A lifelong fan lays out WW’s legend for those who want to know her better. Brush up on the important people, equipment, and lessons that Princess Diana has shown us through the…
Here is an in-depth guide to understanding, building, and managing an optimal collection of graphic novels that is targeted to please the format’s mamy dedicated adult fans. The book provides a helpful overview of the increasingly imporant role that graphic novels play in collection development. Serchay covers both American and foreign works and provides invaluable…
2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best Academic/Scholarly Work In Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, Aaron Kashtan argues that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to focus on text-based literature, particularly fiction. However,…
2019 Will Eisner Comic Industry Award Nominee, Best Academic/Scholarly Work In Between Pen and Pixel: Comics, Materiality, and the Book of the Future, Aaron Kashtan argues that paying attention to comics helps us understand the future of the book. Debates over the future of the book tend to focus on text-based literature, particularly fiction. However,…
This 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.
Comics Studies wie Gender Studies sind als Wissenschaften fundamental interdisziplinär, ihre Gegenstände ergä̈nzen einander in vielfacher Hinsicht, gleichzeitig fehlt eine Überblicksdarstellung. Die wiederholte visuelle Präsenz des Körpers bietet ideale Voraussetzungen für komplexe Auseinandersetzungen mit Konzepten von Geschlecht und Körperrepräsentation und die Auseinandersetzung mit intersektionalen Fragen. Umgekehrt haben Diskussionen und Erkenntnisse der Gender Studies Eingang in…
Als popkulturelles Medium bieten gerade Comics vielfältige Perspektiven auf zeitgenössische und historische Familienkonzepte und -metaphern. Die interdisziplinären Beiträge der Publikation reflektieren kritisch, welche medienspezifischen narrativen, (produktions-)ästhetischen und/oder pädagogischen Potentiale und Funktionen Comics aufweisen, um un/gewöhnliche Familienkonzepte und -strukturen in Text und Bild zu de/konstruieren. Die Open-Access-Veröffentlichung dieses Buches wurde durch die Merz Akademie, Hochschule für…
Multiculturalism, 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…
This 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.
Multiculturalism, 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.
The zombie craze has infected popular culture with the intensity of a viral outbreak, propagating itself through text, television, film, video games, and many other forms of media. As a metaphor, zombies may represent political notions, such as the return of the repressed violence of colonialism, or the embodiment of a culture obsessed with consumerism….
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