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From the acclaimed author of Imagine Wanting Only This–a timely and moving meditation on isolation and longing, both as individuals and as a society. A Kirkus Reviews Best Nonfiction Book of the Century There is a silent epidemic in America: loneliness. Shameful to talk about and often misunderstood, loneliness is everywhere, from the most major…
A Mary Sue Best YA Graphic Novel Runner-Up! For fans of dungeon crawls and dice rolls–and anyone wanting to know more about them–Side Quest is a stand-alone graphic novel history of roleplaying games (RPGs), from ancient games to those played today, with personal stories from creators throughout! With a meld of history, fantasy, and memoir,…
A Mary Sue Best YA Graphic Novel Runner-Up! For fans of dungeon crawls and dice rolls–and anyone wanting to know more about them–Side Quest is a stand-alone graphic novel history of roleplaying games (RPGs), from ancient games to those played today, with personal stories from creators throughout! With a meld of history, fantasy, and memoir,…
Across Europe and North America, far-right parties have strategically framed immigration as a threat to national identity and security, capitalizing on public anxieties around cultural change and economic pressure. Part of the groundbreaking ethnoGRAPHIC series, Crossing Lines is a graphic anthology about human migration that challenges the rise of anti-immigrant populism. Research shows that it…
2017 The Association for the Studies of the Present Book Prize Finalist Mention, 2017 Lora Romero First Book Award Presented by the American Studies Association Winner of the 2012 CLAGS Fellowship Award for Best First Book Project in LGBT StudiesHow fantasy meets reality as popular culture evolves and ignites postwar gender, sexual, and race revolutions….
Time and again over the last few decades, we have read that the world is full of pic- tures and that, in fact, pictures are filling up the world at such a tremendously accel- erating rate that our environment is about to become a picture itself, and of itself. However, when a phenomenon gradually occupies…
This book contributes to a growing body of work celebrating the visual methods and tools that aid knowledge transfer and welcome new audiences to social science research. Visual research methodological milestones highlight a trajectory towards the adoption of more creative and artistic media. As such, the book is dedicated to exploring the creative potential of…
Everybody searches for that special place to call “home.” How was I to know that mine would be found in a picture postcard village in the foothill of France’s Pyrénées mountains? OVER HERE is the first-year diary of a California couple who boldly went where no Angelenos had gone before.
In this highly original text graphic storytelling offers a unique way for readers to understand and engage with feminism and resistance in a more emotionally resonant way.
Do Irish superheroes actually sound Irish? Why are Gary Larson’s Far Side cartoons funny? How do political cartoonists in India, Turkey, and the US get their point across? What is the impact of English on comics written in other languages?These questions and many more are answered in this volume, which brings together the two fields…
Writers have represented 9/11 and its aftermath with varying degrees of success. In Out of the Blue, Kristiaan Versluys focuses on novels that move beyond patriotic clichés and cheap sensationalism and provide new insights into the emotional and ethical impact of these traumatic events–and what it means to depict them. Versluys focuses on Don DeLillo’s…
Sociology is interested in the ways people shape the society they live in, and the ways society shapes them. Simply, it is the study of what modern society is and how it functions. In the series’ inimitable style, Introducing Sociology traces the origins of sociology from industrialization, revolution and the Enlightenment through to globalization, neoliberalism…
More and more people are noticing links between urban geography and the spaces within the layout of panels on the comics page. Benjamin Fraser explores the representation of the city in a range of comics from across the globe. Comics address the city as an idea, a historical fact, a social construction, a material-built environment,…
More and more people are noticing links between urban geography and the spaces within the layout of panels on the comics page. Benjamin Fraser explores the representation of the city in a range of comics from across the globe. Comics address the city as an idea, a historical fact, a social construction, a material-built environment,…
This 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.
Can comics be documentary, and can documentary take the form of, and thus be, comics? Through a cluster of early twenty-first century comics, Mickwitz argues that these comics share a documentary ambition to visually narrate and represent aspects and events of the real world.
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