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Title Comics and power : representing and questioning culture, subjects and communities / edited by Rikke Platz Cortsen, Erin La Cour and Anne Magnussen
Published Newcastle upon Tyne, England : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2015
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Description 1 online resource (327 pages) : illustrations
Summary Many introductions to comics scholarship books begin with an anecdote recounting the author's childhood experiences reading comics, thereby testifying to the power of comics to engage and impact youth, but comics and power are intertwined in a numbers of ways that go beyond concern for children's reading habits. Comics and Power presents very different methods of studying the complex and diverse relationship between comics and power. Divided into three sections, its 14 chapters discuss how comics interact with, reproduce, and/or challenge existing power structures - from the comics medium and
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Notes English
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed February 20, 2015)
Subject Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Exhibitions
Comic book & cartoon art.
Graphic novel & Manga artwork.
ART -- Techniques -- Drawing.
Comic books, strips, etc.
Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects
Comic
Genre/Form Exhibition catalogs
Form Electronic book
Author Platz Cortsen, Rikke, editor.
La Cour, Erin, editor.
Magnussen, Anne, editor.
ISBN 9781443875059
1443875058