The Power of Comics
History, Form and Culture
(Sprache: Englisch)
The Power of Comics is the first textbook to introduce undergraduate students to a broader understanding of the medium and its communication potential. Similar to film appreciation courses of the past, this text is intended for a comics appreciation course...
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The Power of Comics is the first textbook to introduce undergraduate students to a broader understanding of the medium and its communication potential. Similar to film appreciation courses of the past, this text is intended for a comics appreciation course offered at most colleges and universities, but could easily be adapted to many different approaches to comics studies. The Power of Comics is the first textbook to introduce undergraduate students to a broader understanding of the medium and its communication potential. Similar to film appreciation courses of the past, this text is intended for a comics appreciation course offered at most colleges and universities, but could easily be adapted to many different approaches to comics studies.
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A comprehensive introduction to the comic artsFrom the introduction by Paul Levitz "If ever there was a medium characterized by its unexamined self-expression, it's comics. For decades after the medium's birth, it was free of organized critical analysis, its creators generally disinclined to self-analysis or formal documentation. The average reader didn't know who created the comics, how or why . . . and except for a uniquely destructive period during America's witch-hunting of the 1950s, didn't seem to care. As the medium has matured, however, and the creativity of comics began to touch the mainstream of popular culture in many ways, curiosity followed, leading to journalism and eventually, scholarship, and so here we are."
The Power of Comics is the first introductory textbook for comic art studies courses. Lending a broader understanding of the medium and its communication potential, it provides students with a coherent and comprehensive explanation of comic books and graphicnovels, including coverage of their history and their communication techniques, research into their meanings and effects and an overview of industry practices and fan culture.
Co-authors randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith draw on their own years of experience teaching comics studies courses and the scholarly literature across several disciplines to create a text with the following features:
. Discussion questions for each chapter
. Activities to engage readers
. Recommended reading suggestions
. Over 150 illustrations
. Bibliography
. Glossary
The Power of Comics deals exclusively with comic books and graphic novels. One reason for this focus is that no one text can hope to do justice to both strips and books; there is simply too much to cover. Preference is given to comic books because in their longer form, the graphic novel, they have the greatest potential for depth and complexity of expression. As comic strips shrink in size and become more inane in content,
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „The Power of Comics “
PrefaceIntroduction
Chapter 1: Defining Comic Books as a Medium
Chapter 2: History of Comic Books, Part 1: Developing a Medium
Chapter 3: History of Comic Books, Part 2: The Maturation of the Medium
Chapter 4: The Comic Book Industry
Chapter 5: The Comic Book Creators
Chapter 6: Creating the Story
Chapter 7: Experiencing the Story
Chapter 8: The Comic Book Readers
Chapter 9: Comic Book Genres: Classifying Comics
Chapter 10: Comic Book Genres: The Superhero Genre
Chapter 11: Comic Books and Ideology
Chapter 12: Researching Comic Books
Chapter 13: Comics Culture Around the World
Glossary
Bibliography
Autoren-Porträt von Randy Duncan, Matthew J. Smith
Dr. Randy Duncan is a co-founder of the Comic Arts Conference, the nation's first annual academic conference devoted solely to the study of comics. He also contributed to the St. James Encyclopedia of Popular Culture. Dr. Smith has taught comic-focused courses and has commented on the subject in the media.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autoren: Randy Duncan , Matthew J. Smith
- 2009, 360 Seiten, mit Abbildungen, Maße: 15,6 x 23,6 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Verlag: Continuum
- ISBN-10: 082642936X
- ISBN-13: 9780826429360
Sprache:
Englisch
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"When invited by various departments at my university to give a lecture on comics, I refer to a standard set of references that includes Will Eisner's Comics and Sequential Art and Graphic Storytelling, Scott McCloud's, Understanding Comics The Invisible Art, Robert C. Harvey's The Art of the Comic Book, Roger Sabin's Adult Comics: An Introduction, David Kunzle's The History of the Comic Strip (both volumes), and more recently Charles Hatfield's Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature, Paul Gravett's Graphic Novels: Everything You Need to Know, Ann Miller's Reading Bande Dessinee, and Thierry Groensteen's System of Comics. During these lectures, I am often asked about an introductory textbook on comics that pulls together many of the ideas from these valuable resources. Up to this point in time I did not have a single recommendation, but now I can direct them to this new volume by Duncan and Smith, who are right-up-front about the objective of their book in the first line of their Preface "This is a textbook about comics." The layout of this book is well-matched to today's visually astute student. It provides a good balance of text and image and is divided into 13 chapters, including topics such as "Comic Book Creators," and "The Comic Book Industry."What is immediately evident from the layout is the explicit educational focus on the material. Each chapter opens with a thought provoking or, in some instances, amusing excerpt from a group of esoteric authorities including literary critics, historians, poets, and theorists, followed by a short anecdote related to the topic. Chapter objectives are stated plainly with an assertive heading that reads, "In this chapter, you will learn." For example, in the chapter, "Comic Books and Ideology," two of the four objectives include "the concept of ideology and the reason for exploring its function in society"; and "some ways in which comics creators have taken up social causes in opposition to prevailing ideologies." There
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