{"product_id":"the-graphic-novel-an-introduction-hardback-9781107025233","title":"The Graphic Novel; An Introduction (Hardback) 9781107025233","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eThe Graphic Novel\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eAn Introduction\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThis introduction provides a historical overview of the graphic novel, with a strong focus on its international significance.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eJan Baetens (Author), Hugo Frey (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781107025233, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 31 October 2014\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e296 pages, 25 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e24.3 x 18.2 x 2 cm, 0.66 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'In a ground-breaking and ambitious critical examination of the graphic novel, Baetens and Frey detail the emergence and evolution of this unique medium of storytelling.' Jessica Whitelaw, Bookbird\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eThis book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyse graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: what is the graphic novel? How do we read graphic novels as narrative forms? Why is page design and publishing format so significant? What theories are developing to explain the genre? How is this form blurring the categories of high and popular literature? Why are graphic novelists nostalgic for the old comics? The authors address these and many other questions raised by the genre. Through their analysis of the works of many well-known graphic novelists - including Bechdel, Clowes, Spiegelman and Ware - Baetens and Frey offer significant insights for future teaching and research on the graphic novel.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e1. Introduction to the graphic novel: a special type of comic book\u003cbr\u003e 2. Adult comics before the graphic novel: from moral panic to pop art sensationalism, 1945–67\u003cbr\u003e 3. Underground comix and mainstream evolutions, 1968–80\u003cbr\u003e 4. 'Not just for kids': clever comics and the new graphic novels\u003cbr\u003e 5. Understanding panel and page layouts\u003cbr\u003e 6. Drawing and style, word and image\u003cbr\u003e 7. The graphic novel as a specific form of storytelling\u003cbr\u003e 8. The graphic novel and literary fiction: exchanges, interplays and fusions\u003cbr\u003e 9. Nostalgia and the return of history.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Graphic novels: literary \u0026amp; memoirs [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Graphic novels: literary \u0026amp; memoirs\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Graphic%20novels:%20literary%20\u0026amp;%20memoirs%20%5BFXL%5D%22\"\u003eFXL\u003c\/a\u003e], Literary studies: general [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: general\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20general%20%5BDSB%5D%22\"\u003eDSB\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":46265505710360,"sku":"9781107025233","price":80.98,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9781107025233i.jpg?v=1692023578","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/the-graphic-novel-an-introduction-hardback-9781107025233","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}