{"product_id":"boom-splat-comics-and-violence-paperback-softback-9781496850041","title":"BOOM! SPLAT!; Comics and Violence (Paperback \/ softback) 9781496850041","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eBOOM! SPLAT!\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eComics and Violence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJim Coby (Edited by), Joanna Davis-McElligatt (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496850041\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 11 March 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 1.3 cm, 0.272 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe contributors to \u003ci\u003eBOOM! SPLAT!\u003c\/i\u003e expertly dispel the common assumptions and clichés about comics representations of violence. Even more importantly, this volume expands critical understandings of the power dynamics, ideological forces, and unspoken harm that constitute violence in all kinds of visual narrative. The comics under investigation cut across genre and geography and take into account a variety of historical periods and politics. Such a rich collection is sure to be an important addition to the study of comics in our classrooms and reading communities.\" - Qiana J. Whitted, professor of English and African American studies at the University of South Carolina and author of \u003ci\u003eEC Comics: Race, Shock, and Social Protest\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"By assembling a rich and varied range of analyses, \u003ci\u003eBOOM! SPLAT! \u003c\/i\u003emakes a distinct contribution to the study of the fraught relationship between racial, sexual, gendered, historical, and political violence and the comics medium.\" - Thomas Giddens, editor of Critical Directions in Comics Studies Comics have always been uniquely situated to recreate and even recalibrate the goings-on of public culture. \u003ci\u003eBOOM! SPLAT!\u003c\/i\u003e offers a testament to this crucial function of comics and demonstrates the very relevant, very real overlaps between comics and real-world exigencies and events.\" - Christopher J. Gilbert, author of \u003ci\u003eCaricature and National Character: The United States at War\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContributions by Lawrence Abrams, Diana Álvarez Amell, Partha Bhattacharjee, Natalja Chestopalova, Jim Coby, Rita Costello, Sam Cowling, Joanna Davis-McElligatt, Elisabetta Di Minico, Kiera M. Gaswint, Vincent Haddad, Kaleb Knoblauch, Christina M. Knopf, Leah Milne, Jacob Murel, Priyanka Tripathi, and Steven S. Vrooman\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e In 1954, the culture, distribution, and content of comics forever changed. Long a mainstay of America’s reading diet, comic books began to fall under the scrutiny of parent groups, church leaders, and politicians. The bright colors and cheaply printed pulp pages of comic books that had once provided an escape were suddenly presumed to house something lascivious, insidious, and morally corrosive. While anxieties about representations of violence in comics have largely fallen to the wayside since the moral panic of the 1950s, thematic and symbolic visual depictions of violence remain central to the comics form. \u003ci\u003eBOOM! SPLAT!\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e Comics and Violence\u003c\/i\u003e examines violence in every iteration—physical violence enacted between people and their environments, formal and structural violence embedded in the comics language itself, representations of historical violence, and ways of reading and seeing violence.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eBOOM! SPLAT! \u003c\/i\u003eis composed of fifteen essays from renowned comics scholars and is organized thematically into four sections, including an examination of histories of violence, forms of violence, modes and systems of violence, and political and social violence. Chapters focus on well-known comics and comics creators, such as Steve Ditko, Hulk, X-Men, and the Marvel universe, to newspaper cartoon strips, postwar graphic novels, revolution, civil rights, trauma, #blacklivesmatter, and more. \u003ci\u003eBOOM! SPLAT!\u003c\/i\u003e serves as a resource to scholars and comics enthusiasts who wish to contemplate and confront the permutations, forms, structures, and discourses of violence that have always animated cartoons.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Through this interrogation, our understanding of violence moves beyond the immediately physical and interpersonal into modes of ephemeral, psychological, and ideological violence. Contributors fill critical gaps by offering sustained explorations of the function of manifold violences in the comics language—those seen, felt, and imagined. The essays in this collection are critically necessary for understanding the current and historical role that violence has played in comics and will help recognize how cartooning imbricates, resists, and expands our thinking about and experiences of violence.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607715475736,"sku":"9781496850041","price":24.37,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/boom-splat-comics-and-violence-paperback-softback-9781496850041","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}