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The comics world: Comic books, graphic novels, and their publics / edited by Benjamin Woo, Jeremy Stoll. [electronic resource]

Contributor(s): Woo, B. (Benjamin) [editor.] | Stoll, J. (Jeremy) [editor.].
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2021Description: e-book contains 250 pages.ISBN: 9781496834690.Subject(s): Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects | Graphic novels -- Social aspects | Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism | Graphic novels -- History and criticism | Literary Studies - Graphic NovelsGenre/Form: Comics criticism. | Essays.DDC classification: 741.59 Online resources: https://academic.oup.com/book/42693 Click here
Contents:
Chapter 1: The comics workforce / Benjamin Woo -- Chapter 2: The Melbourne scene: comics production, city spaces, and the creative industries / Amy Louise Maynard -- Chapter 3: Women and Asian comic art: gendered genres, female portrayals, and women cartoonists / John A. Lent -- Chapter 4: Bringing up manga: how editors in the 1920s and 1930s helped create contemporary Japanese comics / Eike Exner -- Chapter 5: Reshaping comic books in a socialist regime: Quimantú, Para leer al Pato Donald and the Chilean's comics world during Unidad Popular: (1971 - 1973) / Ivan Lima Gomes -- Chapter 6: Whatever happened to the comics press? The slow rise and rapid fall of a niche media industry / Bart Beaty -- Chapter 7: "All that Shakespeare stuff": comic books and the public pedagogy of adaptation / Shari Sabeti -- Chapter 8: Learning to speak "without shame": a feminist response to gendered violence in Priya's Shakti / Valerie Wieskamp -- Chapter 9: The tribes of Comic-Con: continuity and change in the twenty-first-century fan culture / Rob Salkowitz -- Chapter 10: Comics and comic cons: finding the sense of community / T. Keith Edmunds -- Chapter 11: Follow the readers: leadership elections in the Silver-and-Bronze-Age legion of super-heroes / Christopher J. Galdieri -- Chapter 12: Not just superhero stories: comic book fandom as a resource in the cultural toolkit of life / Adriana Estrada Wilson -- Chapter 13: Pirates and publishers: comics scanning and the audience function / Kalervo A. Sinervo -- Chapter 14: Objectifying the objectifiers: academics in the comics world - an interivew with Charles Hatfield and Franny Howes -- Contributors -- Index.
Abstract: Abstract What do the social sciences have to teach us about comic books and graphic novels? This volume collects essays exploring the social life of comics from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Addressing how comics move through and constitute publics in the moments of production, circulation, and reception, The Comics World seeks to model an interdisciplinary comics studies that crosses the social science–humanities divide. Provided by publisher.
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Chapter 1: The comics workforce / Benjamin Woo -- Chapter 2: The Melbourne scene: comics production, city spaces, and the creative industries / Amy Louise Maynard -- Chapter 3: Women and Asian comic art: gendered genres, female portrayals, and women cartoonists / John A. Lent -- Chapter 4: Bringing up manga: how editors in the 1920s and 1930s helped create contemporary Japanese comics / Eike Exner -- Chapter 5: Reshaping comic books in a socialist regime: Quimantú, Para leer al Pato Donald and the Chilean's comics world during Unidad Popular: (1971 - 1973) / Ivan Lima Gomes -- Chapter 6: Whatever happened to the comics press? The slow rise and rapid fall of a niche media industry / Bart Beaty -- Chapter 7: "All that Shakespeare stuff": comic books and the public pedagogy of adaptation / Shari Sabeti -- Chapter 8: Learning to speak "without shame": a feminist response to gendered violence in Priya's Shakti / Valerie Wieskamp -- Chapter 9: The tribes of Comic-Con: continuity and change in the twenty-first-century fan culture / Rob Salkowitz -- Chapter 10: Comics and comic cons: finding the sense of community / T. Keith Edmunds -- Chapter 11: Follow the readers: leadership elections in the Silver-and-Bronze-Age legion of super-heroes / Christopher J. Galdieri -- Chapter 12: Not just superhero stories: comic book fandom as a resource in the cultural toolkit of life / Adriana Estrada Wilson -- Chapter 13: Pirates and publishers: comics scanning and the audience function / Kalervo A. Sinervo -- Chapter 14: Objectifying the objectifiers: academics in the comics world - an interivew with Charles Hatfield and Franny Howes -- Contributors -- Index.

Abstract
What do the social sciences have to teach us about comic books and graphic novels? This volume collects essays exploring the social life of comics from a range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. Addressing how comics move through and constitute publics in the moments of production, circulation, and reception, The Comics World seeks to model an interdisciplinary comics studies that crosses the social science–humanities divide. Provided by publisher.

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