Breaking the frames : populism and prestige in comics studies / Marc Singer.
"Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on the populist rhetoric of cultural studies. As a result, comics studies has begun t...
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| Language: | English |
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Austin, TX :
University of Texas Press,
2018.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | World comics and graphic nonfiction series.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction. Pow! zap!: comics aren't just for cultural studies professors anymore
- The myth of Eco: comics, continuity, and cultural populism
- The abuses of history: postmodernism and contemporary superhero comics
- Properties of the imagination: copyright and empire in The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen
- The limits of realism: alternative comics and the workshop aesthetic
- Comics studies in miniature: the canonization of Persepolis
- Shadows of the past: fictions of history in Nat Turner
- Afterword. Never apologize, never defend.