The Trauma Graphic Novel
$67.99This book provides a link between the contemporary criticism of Trauma Studies and the increasingly important world of comic books and graphic novels.
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I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing: Star Wars and the Triumph of Geek Culture
$21.99“Funny, incisive, and timely…” –Lawrence Kasdan, co-screenwriter of The Empire Strikes Back, Return of the Jedi, The Force Awakens, and Solo: A Star Wars StoryA.D. Jameson celebrates the triumph of geekdom in I Find Your Lack of Faith Disturbing, an insightful and irreverent journey through the science fiction, fantasy, and superhero franchises that now dominate…
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Metamaus: A Look Inside a Modern Classic, Maus
$35.00NATIONAL JEWISH BOOK AWARD WINNER – Visually and emotionally rich, MetaMaus is as groundbreaking as the masterpiece whose creation it reveals – Featured in the documentary Art Spiegelman: Disaster Is My Muse In the pages of MetaMaus, Art Spiegelman re-enters the Pulitzer Prize-winning Maus, the modern classic that has altered how we see literature, comics,…
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Manga’s Cultural Crossroads
$245.00Focusing on the art and literary form of manga, this volume examines the intercultural exchanges that have shaped manga during the twentieth century and how manga’s culturalization is related to its globalization. Through contributions from leading scholars in the fields of comics and Japanese culture, it describes “manga culture” in two ways: as a fundamentally…
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Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels
$225.00This 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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Postcolonial Comics: Texts, Events, Identities
$225.00This volume examines new comic book cultures, graphic writing, and bande dessinée texts as they relate to postcolonialism in contemporary Anglophone and Francophone settings. Chapters are framed within a larger enquiry that considers definitive aspects of the postcolonial condition in 21st century (con)texts. Authors demonstrate that the field of comic book production and circulation in…
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American Theology, Superhero Comics, and Cinema: The Marvel of Stan Lee and the Revolution of a Genre
$225.00This book explores the idea of the “American monomyth” that pervades American hero stories and examines its philosophical and theological origins and specific manifestations in early American superhero comics. Surveying the anthropologies of six American theologians who argue against many of the monomyth’s assumptions, principally the staunch individualism taken to be the model of humanity,…
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The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero
$66.99Finding expression in comic books, television series and successful blockbuster films, the superhero has become part of everyday life. Exploring the superhero genre, its storytelling practices, its hero-types and its relationship with fans, this anthology fills a gap in research about the comic book superhero of the last 20 years.
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Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods
$235.00Critical Approaches to Comics offers 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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Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods
$72.99Critical Approaches to Comics offers 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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Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes
$200.00Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world. This book will delight and provoke anyone interested in the history of feminism or the importance of comics in contemporary life.
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Wonder Women: Feminisms and Superheroes
$55.99Drawing upon her long career as a formidable feminist critic yet wearing her knowledge lightly, Lillian Robinson finds the essence of wonder women in our non-animated three-dimensional world. This book will delight and provoke anyone interested in the history of feminism or the importance of comics in contemporary life.
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Was Superman a Spy?: And Other Comic Book Legends Revealed
$24.00Fascinating and often bizarre true stories behind more than 130 urban legends about comic book culture. Was Superman a Spy? demystifies all of the interesting stories, unbelievable anecdotes, wacky rumors, and persistent myths that have piled up like priceless back issues in the seventy-plus years of the comic book industry, including: – Elvis Presley’s trademark…
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Men of Tomorrow: Geeks, Gangsters, and the Birth of the Comic Book
$24.99Animated by the stories of some of the last century’s most charismatic and conniving artists, writers, and businessmen, Men of Tomorrow brilliantly demonstrates how the creators of the superheroes gained their cultural power and established a crucial place in the modern imagination. “This history of the birth of superhero comics highlights three pivotal figures. The…
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Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood
$95.00Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This…
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Comic Books Incorporated: How the Business of Comics Became the Business of Hollywood
$34.95Comic Books Incorporated tells the story of the US comic book business, reframing the history of the medium through an industrial and transmedial lens. Comic books wielded their influence from the margins and in-between spaces of the entertainment business for half a century before moving to the center of mainstream film and television production. This…