This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field.
Essays examine:
The Routledge Companion to Comics expertly organizes representative work from a range of disciplines, including media and cultural studies, literature, philosophy, and linguistics. More than an introduction to the study of comics, this book will serve as a crucial reference for anyone interested in pursuing research in the area, guiding students, scholars, and comics fans alike.
| ISBN: | 9780367581534 |
| Publication date: | 30th June 2020 |
| Author: | Frank Bramlett, Roy T Cook, Aaron Meskin |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Pagination: | 472 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions |
| Genres: |
Popular culture Media studies Gender studies, gender groups Philosophy: aesthetics Literary studies: general The arts: general topics Linguistics Graphical and digital media applications |
This cutting-edge handbook brings together an international roster of scholars to examine many facets of comics and graphic novels. Contributor essays provide authoritative, up-to-date overviewsof the major topics and questions within comic studies, offering readers a truly global approach to understanding the field.Essays examine: the history of the temporal, geographical, and formal development of comics, including topics like art comics, manga, comix, and the comics code; issues such as authorship, ethics, adaptation, and translating comics; connections between comics and other artistic media (drawing, caricature, film) as well as the linkages between comics and other academic fields like linguistics and philosophy; new perspectives on comics genres, from funny animal comics to war comics to romance comics and beyond.
The Routledge Companion to Comics features in the following genres: Popular culture, Media studies, Gender studies, gender groups, Philosophy: aesthetics, Literary studies: general, The arts: general topics, Linguistics, Graphical and digital media applications
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The Routledge Companion to Comics was written by Frank Bramlett, Roy T Cook, Aaron Meskin and published by Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis
The Routledge Companion to Comics has 472 pages
Yes it is part of Routledge Media and Cultural Studies Companions series
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