Critical Approaches to Comics

Abstract

Introduction: Should We Discipline the Reading of Comics? Henry Jenkins I. Form 1. Wordless Comics: Imaginative Appeal of Peter Kuper's System David Berona 2. Comics Modes: Caricature and Illustration in the Crumb Family's Dirty Laundry Joseph Witek 3. Image Functions: Shape and Color as Hermeneutic Images in Asterios Polyp Randy Duncan 4. Time and Narrative: Unity and Discontinuity in Invisibles Marc Singer 5. Mise en scene and Framing: Visual Storytelling in Lone Wolf and Cub Pascal Lefevre 6. Abstract Form: Sequential Dynamism and Iconostasis in Abstract Comics and Steve Ditko's Amazing Spider-Man Andrei Molotiu II. Content 7. Philosophy: The Triumph of the Human Spirit in X-Men Jeff McLaughlin 8. Journalism: Drawing on Words to Picture the Past in Safe Area Gorazde Amy Kiste Nyberg 9. Propaganda: Pleasures of Persuasion in Captain America Christopher Murray III. Production 10. Political Economy: Manipulating Demand and The Death of Mark Rogers 11. Culture of Consumption: Commodification through Superman: Return to Krypton Ian Gordon 12. Ethnography of Production: Editor Axel Alonso and the Sale of Ideas Stanford Carpenter 13. Auteur Criticism: Re-Visionary Works of Alan Moore Matthew J. Smith 14. History: Discovering the Story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Brad J. Ricca IV. Context 15. Genre: Reconstructing the Superhero in All Star Superman Peter Coogan 16. Ideology: Construction of Race and History in Tintin in the Congo Leonard Rifas 17. Feminism: Second Wave Feminism in the Pages of Lois Lane Jennifer K. Stuller 18. Intertextuality: Surrealist Intertextualities in Max's Bardin Ana Merino V. Reception 19. Cultural Studies: British Girls' Comics, Readers and Memories Mel Gibson 20. Ethnography: Wearing One's Fandom Jeffrey A. Brown 21. Critical Ethnography: Comics Shop as Cultural Clubhouse Brian Swafford

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