{"product_id":"keywords-for-comics-studies-hardback-9781479816682","title":"Keywords for Comics Studies (Hardback) 9781479816682","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRamzi Fawaz (Edited by), Deborah Whaley (Edited by), Shelley Streeby (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781479816682\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 8 June 2021\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e288 pages, 5 b\/w illustrations\u003cbr\u003e21.6 x 20.3 x 1.5 cm, 0.666 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"\u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e is the book this field needs right now, featuring its heavy hitters explaining—as well as debating—the complex and conceptual underpinnings of comics today. Savvy, fresh, inclusive, and often brilliant, it's an essential text.\" (Hillary Chute, author of \u003ci\u003eWhy Comics? From Underground to Everywhere\u003c\/i\u003e) \"In this latest entry of the sublime \u003ci\u003eKeywords\u003c\/i\u003e series from NYU Press, Fawaz, Streeby, and Whaley demonstrate, once again, why they are three of the top scholars working in the Humanities today. This volume is a well-curated, intellectually nimble, collection of wonderfully constructed interdisciplinary entries from a compelling spectrum of creators, educators and theorists. This delightfully accessible book belongs in the collection of anyone truly serious about researching the medium of comics and its associated cultures.\" (John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside and illustrator of \u003ci\u003eKindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation\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\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Across more than fifty original essays, \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like \u003ci\u003eInk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBorder\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePanel\u003c\/i\u003e; conceptual terms such as \u003ci\u003eTrans*\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDisability\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUniverse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFantasy\u003c\/i\u003e; genre terms like \u003ci\u003eZine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePornography\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSuperhero\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eManga\u003c\/i\u003e; and canonical terms like \u003ci\u003eX-Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWatchmen\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas.\u003c\/p\u003e\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":"NYU Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52591072084248,"sku":"9781479816682","price":74.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/keywords-for-comics-studies-hardback-9781479816682","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}