Spanish Comics
Historical and Cultural Perspectives
1st Edition
Published on 1. November 2020
Book
Paperback/Softback
258 pages
978-1-78920-997-6 (ISBN)
Description
Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked outside of Spain. Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain since the early 1980s including the emergence of the graphic novel in 2000. Touching on themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history, the chapters in this collection demonstrate the historical and cultural significance of Spanish comics.
Reviews / Votes
"If anyone is planning a course on contemporary Spanish comics, please look no further. This title is the ideal companion for any class on this topic. On the other hand, one of the virtues of graphic narratives is the amount of information they can transmit about the culture, history, and politics of any location, making them a suitable vehicle for the examination of any context. Anne Magnussen's edited volume is a flawless example of this aspect...Overall, Magnussen's volume does a superb job bringing together a select group of scholars to discuss and examine the contemporary Spanish comics scene... Anyone reading this book will understand well why Spanish comics are thriving. Their effervescence and vibrancy denote an area of the national cultural industry that shows no signs of faltering or hesitancy," * Comic Art BlogMore details
Language
English
Place of publication
Oxford
United Kingdom
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Illustrations
Bibliography; Index; 57 Illustrations
Dimensions
Height: 203 mm
Width: 127 mm
Thickness: 16 mm
Weight
304 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-78920-997-6 (9781789209976)
DOI
10.3167/9781789209969
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Person
Anne Magnussen is an associate professor at the Department of History, University of Southern Denmark, and co-editor of the journal European Comic Art.
Content
Introduction: Spanish Comics. Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Anne Magnussen
Chapter 1. Dissenting Voices? Controlling Children's Comics under Franco
Rhiannon McGlade
Chapter 2. Satirical Panels against Censorship. A Battle That Raged during the Spanish Transistion
Gerardo Vilches
Chapter 3. Tintin in the Movida Madrilena. Gender and Sexuality in the Punk Comic Book Zine Scene
Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia
Chapter 4. From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth. Castelao in Galician Graphic Biography
David Miranda-Barreiro
Chapter 5. The Representation of Traumatic Memory in Spanish Comics. Remembering the Civil War and Francoism
Juan Carlos Perez Garcia
Chapter 6. 'For He Bestirred Himself to Protect the Land from the Moors'. Depicting the Medieval Reconquista in Modern Spanish Graphic Novels
Iain A. MacInnes
Chapter 7. An interview with Paco Roca
Esther Claudio
Chapter 8. 'They Tried To Bury Us; They Didn't Know We Were Seeds': Intergenerational Memory and La Casa
Sarah D. Harris
Chapter 9. Paco Roca's Graphic Novel La Casa (2015) as Architectural Elegy
Benjamin Fraser
Chapter 10. Therapeutic Journeys in Contemporary Graphic Novels
Agatha Mohring
Chapter 11. Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age. Multimodal Extension in the Works of Aleix Salo
Javier Munoz-Basols and Marina Massaguer Comes
Chapter 12. Historicising the Emergence of Comics Art Scholarship in Spain, 1965-1975
Antonio Lazaro-Reboll
Anne Magnussen
Chapter 1. Dissenting Voices? Controlling Children's Comics under Franco
Rhiannon McGlade
Chapter 2. Satirical Panels against Censorship. A Battle That Raged during the Spanish Transistion
Gerardo Vilches
Chapter 3. Tintin in the Movida Madrilena. Gender and Sexuality in the Punk Comic Book Zine Scene
Louie Dean Valencia-Garcia
Chapter 4. From Pioneer of Comics to Cultural Myth. Castelao in Galician Graphic Biography
David Miranda-Barreiro
Chapter 5. The Representation of Traumatic Memory in Spanish Comics. Remembering the Civil War and Francoism
Juan Carlos Perez Garcia
Chapter 6. 'For He Bestirred Himself to Protect the Land from the Moors'. Depicting the Medieval Reconquista in Modern Spanish Graphic Novels
Iain A. MacInnes
Chapter 7. An interview with Paco Roca
Esther Claudio
Chapter 8. 'They Tried To Bury Us; They Didn't Know We Were Seeds': Intergenerational Memory and La Casa
Sarah D. Harris
Chapter 9. Paco Roca's Graphic Novel La Casa (2015) as Architectural Elegy
Benjamin Fraser
Chapter 10. Therapeutic Journeys in Contemporary Graphic Novels
Agatha Mohring
Chapter 11. Social Criticism through Humour in the Digital Age. Multimodal Extension in the Works of Aleix Salo
Javier Munoz-Basols and Marina Massaguer Comes
Chapter 12. Historicising the Emergence of Comics Art Scholarship in Spain, 1965-1975
Antonio Lazaro-Reboll