The Narratology of Comic Art
$70.99By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition.
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Historicising Transmedia Storytelling: Early Twentieth-Century Transmedia Story Worlds
$62.99Tracing the industrial emergence of transmedia storytelling–typically branded a product of the contemporary digital media landscape–this book provides a historicised intervention into understandings of how fictional stories flow across multiple media forms. Through studies of the storyworlds constructed for The Wizard of Oz, Tarzan, and Superman, the book reveals how new developments in advertising, licensing,…
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Subjectivity Across Media: Interdisciplinary and Transmedial Perspectives
$62.99Media in general and narrative media in particular have the potential to represent not only a variety of both possible and actual worlds but also the perception and consciousness of characters in these worlds. Hence, media can be understood as “qualia machines,” as technologies that allow for the production of subjective experiences within the affordances…
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Breaking Down Joker: Violence, Loneliness, Tragedy
$60.99Breaking Down Joker offers a compelling, multi-disciplinary examination of a landmark film and media event that was simultaneously both celebrated and derided, and which arrived at a time of unprecedented social malaise. The collection breaks down Joker to explore its aesthetic and ideological representations within the social and cultural context in which it was released….
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Multiplicity and Cultural Representation in Transmedia Storytelling: Superhero Narratives
$189.99This book explores the relationship between multiplicity and representation of non-European and European-American cultures, with a focus on comics and superheroes. The author employs a combination of research methodologies, including close reading of transmedia texts and interviews with transmedia storytellers and audiences, to better understand the way in which diverse cultures are employed as agents…
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“Suffering Sappho!”: Lesbian Content and Queer Female Characters in Comics
$60.99This book explores the past place, current presence, and possible future status of lesbianism in comics.
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“Suffering Sappho!”: Lesbian Content and Queer Female Characters in Comics
$233.99This book explores the past place, current presence, and possible future status of lesbianism in comics.
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Immigrants and Comics: Graphic Spaces of Remembrance, Transaction, and Mimesis
$60.99Immigrants and Comics is an interdisciplinary, themed anthology that focuses on how comics have played a crucial role in representing, constructing, and reifying the immigrant subject and the immigrant experience in popular global culture of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Nhora Lucía Serrano and a diverse group of contributors examine immigrant experience as they navigate…
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Vertigo Comics: British Creators, US Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint
$60.99This book explores the so-called “British Invasion” of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s. Focusing on British creators within Vertigo, this study traces the evolution of the line from its creation in 1993 to its demise in 2019. Through…
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Vertigo Comics: British Creators, Us Editors, and the Making of a Transformational Imprint
$233.99This book explores the so-called “British Invasion” of DC Comics’ Vertigo imprint, which played an important role in redefining the mainstream comics industry in the US during the early 1990s. Focusing on British creators within Vertigo, this study traces the evolution of the line from its creation in 1993 to its demise in 2019. Through…
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Empirical Comics Research: Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods
$62.99This edited volume brings together work in the field of empirical comics research.
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Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation
$62.99Throughout the history of the genre, the superhero has been characterised primarily by physical transformation and physical difference. Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation explores the transformation of the superhero body across multiple media forms including comics, film, television, literature and the graphic novel. How does the body of the hero offer new ways to imagine…
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Comics and Videogames: From Hybrid Medialities to Transmedia Expansions
$62.99This book offers the first comprehensive study of the many interfaces shaping the relationship between comics and videogames. It combines in-depth conceptual reflection with a rich selection of paradigmatic case studies from contemporary media culture. The editors have gathered a distinguished group of international scholars working at the interstices of comics studies and game studies…
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More Words about Pictures: Current Research on Picturebooks and Visual/Verbal Texts for Young People
$69.99With 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.
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Female Action Heroes: A Guide to Women in Comics, Video Games, Film, and Television
$110.00This book offers 25 profiles of some of the most popular female action heroes throughout the history of film, television, comic books, and video games. Female action heroes, like other fictional characters, not only reveal a lot about society, but greatly influence individuals in society. It is no surprise that the gradual development and increase…