{"product_id":"the-cambridge-companion-to-comics-paperback-9781009255691","title":"The Cambridge Companion to Comics (Paperback \/ softback) 9781009255691","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Comics\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eInterweaving history and theory, this book unpacks the complexity of comics, covering formal, critical and institutional dimensions.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eMaaheen Ahmed (Edited by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781009255691, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 31 August 2023\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e395 pages\u003cbr\u003e27 x 18 x 2.5 cm, 0.654 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThe Cambridge Companion to Comics presents comics as a multifaceted prism, generating productive and insightful dialogues with the most salient issues concerning the humanities at large. This volume provides readers with the histories and theories necessary for studying comics. It consists of three sections: Forms maps the most significant comics forms, including material formats and techniques. Readings brings together a selection of tools to equip readers with a critical understanding of comics. Uses examines the roles accorded to comics in museums, galleries, and education. Chapters explore comics through several key aspects, including drawing, serialities, adaptation, transmedia storytelling, issues of stereotyping and representation, and the lives of comics in institutional and social settings. This volume emphasizes the relationship between comics and other media and modes of expression. It offers close readings of vital works, covering more than a century of comics production and extending across visual, literary and cultural disciplines.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction\u003cbr\u003e I. Forms: 1. Comics drawing: a (poly)graphic history Simon Grennan\u003cbr\u003e 2. Comics, media culture and seriality Matthieu Letourneux\u003cbr\u003e 3. Comics and graphic novels Paul Williams\u003cbr\u003e 4. Manga, an affective form of comics Jaqueline Berndt\u003cbr\u003e 5. Digital comics: a new\/old form Giorgio Busi Rizzi\u003cbr\u003e II. Readings: 6. Comics and multimodal storytelling Blair Davis\u003cbr\u003e 7. Comics adaptations: fidelity and creativity Jan Baetens\u003cbr\u003e 8. Comics genres: cracking the codes Nicolas Labarre\u003cbr\u003e 9. Life writing in comics Shiamin Kwa\u003cbr\u003e 10. Racialines: interrogating stereotypes in comics Daniel Stein\u003cbr\u003e 11. Women and comics Maaheen Ahmed\u003cbr\u003e 12. Comics at the limits of narration Erwin Dejasse\u003cbr\u003e III. Uses: 13. Comics and their archives Benoît Crucifix\u003cbr\u003e 14. Readers and fans: lived comics cultures Mel Gibson\u003cbr\u003e 15. Comics in the museum Kim Munson\u003cbr\u003e 16. Comics in libraries Jo Sutliff Sanders\u003cbr\u003e 17. 'Educationally occupied': learning with comics Susan Kirtley.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary theory [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary theory\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20theory%20%5BDSA%5D%22\"\u003eDSA\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46568192901400,"sku":"9781009255691","price":22.39,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781009255691i_23665a60-5f46-424e-9571-4be2b111db42.jpg?v=1696791679","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-cambridge-companion-to-comics-paperback-9781009255691","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}