| Description |
1 online resource (232 p.) |
| Contents |
Preliminary Material / Mikhail Peppas and Sanabelle Ebrahim -- More than Simply a Flash of Colour: The True Rhetorical Power of Superhero Style / Jonathan C. Evans -- Images in Space: The Challenges of Architectural Spatiality in Comics / Daniel Merlin Goodbrey -- S/Z in Panels: Adaptation, Polysemous Textuality and the Graphic Novel / Ryan Cadrette -- Defining the British Political Cartoon / Louisa Buck -- Bourdieu vs. Batman: Examining the Cultural Capital of the Dark Knight via Graphic Novels / Amy Maynard -- M, John J. Muth's Adaptation of Lang's Film: An Inference Bridge from Film to Comic / Julio Gutiérrez G-H -- Framing the Subconscious: Envisioning the Polysemic Narrative of the Graphic Novel as a Reference Point for Psychoanalytical and Semiotic Discourse / John Harnett -- (Re)Interpreting Dante's Inferno in Gaiman's Season of Mists / Zainab Younus -- Comics on Screen: Pages and Places in the Cloud / Jayms Clifford Nichols -- Alternative Graphic Fiction and the Web: Models of Creation and Models of Financial Viability / Finn Harvor -- Something Borrowed: Interfigural Characterisation in Anglo-American Fantasy Comics / Essi Varis -- DNA (Deco Nouveau Afrique): Futurising African Frames / Mikhail Peppas and Sanabelle Ebrahim -- From Dashing to Delicious: The Gastrorgasmic Aesthetics of Contemporary BL Manga / Antonija Cavcic -- Negotiating Ordinariness and Otherness: Superman, Clark Kent and the Superhero Masquerade / Barbara Brownie and Danny Graydon -- Traveling Through Time and Space: Influences of Travel on Identity in Carnet De Voyage and Persepolis / Eliza Albert-Baird -- Identity and Idiolect: Codeswitching as Identity Marker in Chris Claremont's Uncanny X-Men and New Mutants / Annie Burman -- Maghrebian Diaspora and Immigrant Identity in Farid Boudjellal's L'Oud: La Trilogie / Tamara El-Hoss -- 'This is Chaos': Boundary Transgressions within Batman: Year One and Arkham Asylum / Marcel Fromme and Nils Zumbansen -- Graphic Life Writing in Kaisa Leka's I Am Not These Feet / Leena Romu |
| Summary |
The graphic narrative - in merging text with image - showcases an experiential panorama of visceral emotions for the users. Central to the format are considerations about the place of the image story in history and location. Both the comic and the graphic novel appropriate and are appropriated by diverse media in the enactment of individual, social and cultural identity. Intermediality morphs literature into pictures, films into graphic fiction, images into frames, and incorporates a host of flexible production values linked to high/low graphic arts. The structure of the graphic novel, city imaging, food fetishes, autographics, parallel worlds, Superhero guises, character patterning and shifting identities are explored in the eclectic volume by a range of authors using multimodal devices to analyse the composition, reading and interpretation of graphic narratives. The unstoppable momentum of holistic literature promises a converged means of expression that transcends the separation of print, digital and screen while transporting the dialogue about comics into a central scenario of popular culture. Throughout, the story stands strong in parallel with the probing of key concepts such as boundary transgression, moral searching, and the predictiveness of 'frame-casting' that allows feedback between the comic book frame and the silhouette of the future city |
| Notes |
Description based upon print version of record |
| Subject |
Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Technique
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Comic books, strips, etc.
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Comic books, strips, etc. -- Technique
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Ebrahim, Sanabelle
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| ISBN |
1848884486 |
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9781848884489 |
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