Studying comics and graphic novels

Author

• Kukkonen, Karin

Additional Author(s)

-

Publisher

Chichester, West Sussex: Wiley-Blackwell, 2013

Language

English

ISBN

9781118499924

Series

Subject(s)

• COMIC BOOKS, STRIPS,ETC.-HISTORY AND CRITICISM
• GRAPHIC NOVELS-HISTORY AND CRITICISM

Notes

• Appendix: p. 155-165
• Glossary: p. 167-177

. . Index: p. 179-182

Abstract

This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout. Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of psychological and physical aspects of reader experience. Carefully structured to build a sequenced, rounded introduction to the subject. Includes study activities, writing exercises, and essay topics throughout. Dedicated chapters cover popular sub-genres such as autobiography and literary adaptation.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

viii, 182 p.

Dimension

23 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

What This Book Holds --
Working Definitions --
1.What's in a Page: Close-Reading Comics --
Cognitive Processes and Critical Terms --
Navigating the Comics Page --
Entering the Storyworld and Meeting its Participants --
Comics Analysis --
A Basic Checklist --
2.The Way Comics Tell it: Narration and Narrators --
Showing and Telling --
Story, Discourse, and Plot --
The Narrator --
Narration, Focalization, and Point of View --
Narrative as Meaning-Making --
Graphic Narrative --
A Basic Checklist --
3.Narrating Minds and Bodies: Autobiographical Comics --
Style and Subjectivity --
Autographic Agents --
Embodiment --
Self-Reflexivity --
Time, Story, and History --
Alternative Agendas and Authenticity --
4.Novels and Graphic Novels: Adaptations --
Transporting Stories --
Media Affordances and Adaptation Strategies --
Fidelity in Adaptation --
Literary Complexity --
The Page Revisited --
5.Comics and Their History --
The Beginnings of Comics History Precursors in Emergent Mass Culture --
Newspaper Comics (1900s-1930s) --
The Comic Book (1930-54) --
Comics Censorship (1954) --
Comics as Popular Culture --
Breaking the Code 1 Pop Art and Underground Comix --
Breaking the Code 2 The British Invasion --
6.The Study and Criticism of Comics --
Resources for Studying Comics --
Access to Comics Texts --
Critical Work on Comics --
Critical Approaches to Comics --
Comics Semiotics --
Comics Narratology --
Cognitive Approaches to Comics --
Historical and Auteurist Approaches --
Cultural Studies and Gender Studies --
Psychoanalysis --
How to Write Your Essay on Comics --
The Crime Scene --
The Witnesses --
Making Your Case --
End Credits.

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