[PDF] The Secret Origins Of Comics Studies eBook

Author : Matthew J. Smith
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 15,80 MB
Release : 2017
Category : Comic books, strips, etc
ISBN : 9781138884519

GET BOOK

Cover -- Half Title -- Titel Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Foreword: Comics Studies, the Anti-Discipline -- Preface -- PART 1 The Educators -- 1 Educating with Comics -- 2 Educating about Comics -- A Pioneer's Perspective: Waldomiro Vergueiro -- A Pioneer's Perspective: James "Bucky" Carter -- PART 2 The Historians -- 3 The Historians of the Creators -- Sidebar: Magazines and Online -- Sidebar: A Herstorian's Perspective -- Sidebar: International Creators -- 4 The Historians of the Comics Industry -- A Pioneer's Perspective: Maurice Horn -- 5 The Historians of the Art Form -- Sidebar: Comic Art -- Sidebar: Bande Dessinée and the Problem of Form -- A Pioneer's Perspective: David Kunzle -- 6 The Librarians and Archivists -- PART 3 The Theorists -- 7 Literary Theory/Narrative Theory -- 8 Semiotics and Linguistics -- Sidebar: Sound Effects -- 9 Myths, Archetypes, and Religions -- Sidebar: Comics' Shortcut to the Sacred -- Sidebar: Comics as (Pseudo- ) Religion -- 10 Ideological/Sociological -- Sidebar: The Immigrant Space -- Sidebar: Trauma and Disability in Comics -- A Pioneer's Perspective: Wolfgang Fuchs -- 11 Formalist Theory: The Cartoonists -- 12 Formalist Theory: Academics -- Sidebar: Materiality -- 13 Psychology/Psychiatry -- Sidebar: Martin Barker -- 14 Gender Studies and Queer Studies -- 15 Manga Studies, A History -- PART 4 The Institutions -- 16 The Organizations -- A Pioneer's Perspective: John A. Lent -- A Pioneer's Perspective: Peter M. Coogan -- 17 The Galleries -- Sidebar: Yoshihiro Yonezawa -- 18 The Conferences -- A Pioneer's Perspective: M. Thomas Inge -- 19 The Journals -- 20 The Presses -- A Pioneer's Perspective: Pascal Lefèvre -- Contributors -- Index

Author : Matthew Smith
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 626 pages
File Size : 37,20 MB
Release : 2017-09-19
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 1317505786

GET BOOK

In The Secret Origins of Comics Studies, today’s leading comics scholars turn back a page to reveal the founding figures dedicated to understanding comics art. Edited by comics scholars Matthew J. Smith and Randy Duncan, this collection provides an in-depth study of the individuals and institutions that have created and shaped the field of Comics Studies over the past 75 years. From Coulton Waugh to Wolfgang Fuchs, these influential historians, educators, and theorists produced the foundational work and built the institutions that inspired the recent surge in scholarly work in this dynamic, interdisciplinary field. Sometimes scorned, often underappreciated, these visionaries established a path followed by subsequent generations of scholars in literary studies, communication, art history, the social sciences, and more. Giving not only credit where credit is due, this volume both offers an authoritative account of the history of Comics Studies and also helps move the field forward by being a valuable resource for creating graduate student reading lists and the first stop for anyone writing a comics-related literature review.

Author : Paul S. Hirsch
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,58 MB
Release : 2024-06-05
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0226829464

GET BOOK

Winner of the Popular Culture Association's Ray and Pat Browne Award for Best Book in Popular or American Culture In the 1940s and ’50s, comic books were some of the most popular—and most unfiltered—entertainment in the United States. Publishers sold hundreds of millions of copies a year of violent, racist, and luridly sexual comics to Americans of all ages until a 1954 Senate investigation led to a censorship code that nearly destroyed the industry. But this was far from the first time the US government actively involved itself with comics—it was simply the most dramatic manifestation of a long, strange relationship between high-level policy makers and a medium that even artists and writers often dismissed as a creative sewer. In Pulp Empire, Paul S. Hirsch uncovers the gripping untold story of how the US government both attacked and appropriated comic books to help wage World War II and the Cold War, promote official—and clandestine—foreign policy and deflect global critiques of American racism. As Hirsch details, during World War II—and the concurrent golden age of comic books—government agencies worked directly with comic book publishers to stoke hatred for the Axis powers while simultaneously attempting to dispel racial tensions at home. Later, as the Cold War defense industry ballooned—and as comic book sales reached historic heights—the government again turned to the medium, this time trying to win hearts and minds in the decolonizing world through cartoon propaganda. Hirsch’s groundbreaking research weaves together a wealth of previously classified material, including secret wartime records, official legislative documents, and caches of personal papers. His book explores the uneasy contradiction of how comics were both vital expressions of American freedom and unsettling glimpses into the national id—scourged and repressed on the one hand and deployed as official propaganda on the other. Pulp Empire is a riveting illumination of underexplored chapters in the histories of comic books, foreign policy, and race.

Author : Peter Coogan
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,3 MB
Release : 2024-02-29
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 9781774430767

GET BOOK

Peter Coogan's 'Superhero: The Secret Origin of a Genre' unravels the evolution of superheroes. Discover the history, powers, and hero-villain dynamics in this concise, engaging read for comic fans and scholars.

Author : Randy Duncan
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 714 pages
File Size : 29,90 MB
Release : 2009-07-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082642936X

GET BOOK

Offers undergraduate students with an understanding of the comics medium and its communication potential. This book deals with comic books and graphic novels. It focuses on comic books because in their longer form they have the potential for complexity of expression.

Author : Amy Kiste Nyberg
Publisher : Univ. Press of Mississippi
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,9 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780878059751

GET BOOK

The content of comic books has been governed by an industry self-regulatory code adopted by publishers in 1954 in response to public and governmental pressure. This book, the first full-length study of this period of comic book history, examines the reasons that comic books were the subject of heated controversy. In tracing the evolution of the controversy and the resulting code, Seal of Approval shows that the comic book has yet to achieve legitimation as a unique form of expression appreciated by readers of all ages.

Author : Blake Bell
Publisher : Fantagraphics Books
Page : 305 pages
File Size : 33,44 MB
Release : 2013-11-16
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1606995529

GET BOOK

The Secret History of Marvel Comics digs back to the 1930s when Marvel Comics wasn't just a comic-book producing company. Marvel Comics owner Martin Goodman had tentacles into a publishing world that might have made that era’s conservative American parents lynch him on his front porch. Marvel was but a small part of Goodman’s publishing empire, which had begun years before he published his first comic book. Goodman mostly published lurid and sensationalistic story books (known as “pulps”) and magazines, featuring sexually-charged detective and romance short fiction, and celebrity gossip scandal sheets. And artists like Jack Kirby, who was producing Captain America for eight-year-olds, were simultaneously dipping their toes in both ponds. The Secret History of Marvel Comics tells this parallel story of 1930s/40s Marvel Comics sharing offices with those Goodman publications not quite fit for children. The book also features a comprehensive display of the artwork produced for Goodman’s other enterprises by Marvel Comics artists such as Jack Kirby and Joe Simon, Alex Schomburg, Bill Everett, Al Jaffee, and Dan DeCarlo, plus the very best pulp artists in the field, including Norman Saunders, John Walter Scott, Hans Wesso, L.F. Bjorklund, and Marvel Comics #1 cover artist Frank R. Paul. Goodman’s magazines also featured cover stories on celebrities such as Jackie Gleason, Elizabeth Taylor, Liberace, and Sophia Loren, as well as contributions from famous literary and social figures such as Isaac Asimov, Theodore Sturgeon, and L. Ron Hubbard.

Author : Peter MacFarland Coogan
Publisher :
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 48,59 MB
Release : 2010-05
Category : Heroes in literature
ISBN : 9781904674306

GET BOOK

This volume provides a thorough history of the origins and evolution of the superhero in literature and film, showing how it developed out of heroic myths and science fiction and into the birth of the comic book superhero as a unique and distinctive genre.

Author : Frederick Luis Aldama
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 704 pages
File Size : 34,52 MB
Release : 2020-04-01
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 0190917962

GET BOOK

Comic book studies has developed as a solid academic discipline, becoming an increasingly vibrant field in the United States and globally. A growing number of dissertations, monographs, and edited books publish every year on the subject, while world comics represent the fastest-growing sector of publishing. The Oxford Handbook of Comic Book Studies looks at the field systematically, examining the history and evolution of the genre from a global perspective. This includes a discussion of how comic books are built out of shared aesthetic systems such as literature, painting, drawing, photography, and film. The Handbook brings together readable, jargon-free essays written by established and emerging scholars from diverse geographic, institutional, gender, and national backgrounds. In particular, it explores how the term "global comics" has been defined, as well the major movements and trends that will drive the field in the years to come. Each essay will help readers understand comic books as a storytelling form grown within specific communities, and will also show how these forms exist within what can be considered a world system of comics.

Author : Charles Hatfield
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 36,75 MB
Release : 2020-08-14
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813591430

GET BOOK

Nominee for the 2021 Eisner Awards Best Academic/Scholarly Work In the twenty-first century, the field of comics studies has exploded. Scholarship on graphic novels, comic books, comic strips, webcomics, manga, and all forms of comic art has grown at a dizzying pace, with new publications, institutions, and courses springing up everywhere. The field crosses disciplinary and cultural borders and brings together myriad traditions. Comics Studies: A Guidebook offers a rich but concise introduction to this multifaceted field, authored by leading experts in multiple disciplines. It opens diverse entryways to comics studies, including history, form, audiences, genre, and cultural, industrial, and economic contexts. An invaluable one-stop resource for veteran and new comics scholars alike, this guidebook represents the state of the art in contemporary comics scholarship.