The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies examines the history and evolution of the visual narrative genre from a global perspective. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
- Section 1: What is a Comic?
- What Kind of Studies Are Comics Studies?
- Why There Is No "Language of Comics"
- In Box: Rethinking Text in the Digital Age
- What Else is a Comic? Between Bayeux and Beano
- Reading Spaces: The Politics of Page Layout
- Comics as Art
- The Cartoon on the Comics Page: A Phenomenology
- All By Myself: Single-Panel Comics and the Question of Genre
- Drawing, Redrawing, and Undrawing
- Section 2: Comics as Social Commentary and Response to Sociopolitical Realities
- Bakhtinian Laughter and Recent Political Editorial Cartoons
- Columbia and the Editorial Cartoon
- Efficacy of Social Commentary through Cartooning
- Radical Graphics: Australian Second Phase Comics
- Self-Regulation and Auto-Censorship of Comics Creators in the Communist Eastern Bloc
- "This is Who I Am": Hybridity and Materiality in Comics Memoir
- Auto/biographics and Graphic Histories Made for the Classroom: Logicomix and Abina and the Important Men
- Ambiguity in Parallel: Visualizing History in Boxers and Saints
- Section 3: Key Issues in Comics
- Irony, Ethics, and Lyric Narrative in Miriam Engelberg's Cancer Made Me a Shallower Person
- Animals in Graphic Narrative
- A Diversionary Art in Le Piano Oriental by Zeina Abirached
- Disco, Derby, and Drag: The Queer Politics of Marvel's Dazzler
- The Replacements: Ethnicity, Gender and Legacy Heroes in Marvel Comics
- A Diversionary Art in Le Piano Oriental by Zeina Abirached
- Hammer in Hand: Feminist Community Building in Jason Aaron's Thor
- When Feminism Went to Market: Issues in Feminist Comics Anthologies in the 1980s and 90s
- Children in Comics: Between Education and Entertainment, Conformity and Agency
- "I'm not a kid; I'm a shark!": Identity Fluidity in Noelle Stevenson's Young Adult Graphic Novels
- Section 4: Comic Book Transcreations
- Forgetting at the intersection of Comics and the Multimodal Novel: James Sie's Still Life Las Vegas
- My Favorite Thing is Monsters: The Socially Engaged Graphic Novel as a Platform for Intersectional Feminism
- Paper or Plastic?: Mapping the Transmedial Intersections of Comics and Action Figures
- Transformative Architectures in Postcolonial Hong Kong Comics
- Adaptation and Racial Representation in DellGold Key TV Tie-ins
- Candy and Drugs for Dinner: Rat Queens, Genre, and Our Aesthetic Categories
- Non-Compliants, Brimpers, and She-Romps: Bitch Planet, Sex Criminals and Their Publics
- Literary Adaptations in Comics and Graphic Novels
- Section 5: Comic Book Studies Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
- Comic Studies in America: The Making of a Field of Scholarship?
- Next Issue: Anticipation and Promise in Comics Studies
- Comics Studies as Interdiscipline
- Comics Studies as Practitioner-Scholar