[PDF] The Cambridge Companion To The American Graphic Novel eBook

Author : Jan Baetens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,49 MB
Release : 2023-09-28
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781009379359

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The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel explores the important role of the graphic novel in reflecting American society and in the shaping of the American imagination. Using key examples, this volume reviews the historical development of various subgenres within the graphic novel tradition and examines how graphic novelists have created multiple and different accounts of the American experience, including that of African American, Asian American, Jewish, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ communities. Reading the American graphic novel opens a debate on how major works have changed the idea of America from that once found in the quintessential action or superhero comics to show new, different, intimate accounts of historical change as well as social and individual, personal experience. It guides readers through the theoretical text-image scholarship to explain the meaning of the complex borderlines between graphic novels, comics, newspaper strips, caricature, literature, and art.

Author : Stephen E. Tabachnick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 246 pages
File Size : 21,66 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1107108799

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This Companion examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the development of this art form globally.

Author : Stephen E. Tabachnick
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 16,28 MB
Release : 2017-07-03
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781107519718

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Since the graphic novel rose to prominence half a century ago, it has become one of the fastest growing literary/artistic genres, generating interest from readers globally. The Cambridge Companion to the Graphic Novel examines the evolution of comic books into graphic novels and the distinct development of this art form both in America and around the world. This Companion also explores the diverse subgenres often associated with it, such as journalism, fiction, historical fiction, autobiography, biography, science fiction and fantasy. Leading scholars offer insights into graphic novel adaptations of prose works and the adaptation of graphic novels to films; analyses of outstanding graphic novels, like Maus and The Walking Man; an overview which distinguishes the international graphic novel from its American counterpart; and analyses of how the form works and what it teaches, making this book a key resource for scholars, graduate students and undergraduate students alike.

Author : David Glover
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 245 pages
File Size : 14,21 MB
Release : 2012-04-05
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0521513375

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An overview of popular literature from the early nineteenth century to the present day from a historical and comparative perspective.

Author : Eric Carl Link
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 19,71 MB
Release : 2015-01-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1107052467

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This Companion explores the relationship between the ideas and themes of American science fiction and their roots in the American cultural experience.

Author : Joshua Miller
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 29,19 MB
Release : 2021-09-23
Category : History
ISBN : 1108838278

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This volume explores the most exciting trends in 21st century US fiction's genres, themes, and concepts.

Author : Jan Baetens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009379364

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The Cambridge Companion to the American Graphic Novel explores the important role of the graphic novel in reflecting American society and in the shaping of the American imagination. Using key examples, this volume reviews the historical development of various subgenres within the graphic novel tradition and examines how graphic novelists have created multiple and different accounts of the American experience, including that of African American, Asian American, Jewish, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ communities. Reading the American graphic novel opens a debate on how major works have changed the idea of America from that once found in the quintessential action or superhero comics to show new, different, intimate accounts of historical change as well as social and individual, personal experience. It guides readers through the theoretical text-image scholarship to explain the meaning of the complex borderlines between graphic novels, comics, newspaper strips, caricature, literature, and art.

Author : Jan Baetens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1315 pages
File Size : 12,44 MB
Release : 2018-07-19
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1316771938

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The Cambridge History of the Graphic Novel provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students.

Author : Maaheen Ahmed
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 28,93 MB
Release : 2023-08-31
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1009255681

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Interweaving history and theory, this book unpacks the complexity of comics, covering formal, critical and institutional dimensions.

Author : Jan Baetens
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 297 pages
File Size : 43,41 MB
Release : 2015
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1107025230

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This 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.