Comics and Power
Representing and Questioning Culture, Subjects and Communities
1st Edition
Published on 5. February 2015
355 pages
978-1-4438-7505-9 (ISBN)
Description
Many introductions to comics scholarship books begin with an anecdote recounting the author's childhood experiences reading comics, thereby testifying to the power of comics to engage and impact youth, but comics and power are intertwined in a numbers of ways that go beyond concern for children's reading habits. Comics and Power presents very different methods of studying the complex and diverse relationship between comics and power. Divided into three sections, its 14 chapters discuss how comics interact with, reproduce, and/or challenge existing power structures - from the comics medium and its institutions to discourses about art, subjectivity, identity, and communities. The contributors and their work, as such, represent a new generation of comics research that combines the study of comics as a unique art form with a focus on the ways in which comics - like any other medium - participate in shaping the societies of which they are part.
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Rikke Platz Cortsen | Erin La Cour | Anne Magnussen
Comics and Power
Representing and Questioning Culture, Subjects and Communities
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01/2015
Cambridge Scholars Publishing
€85.60
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Content
- Intro
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- CONTRIBUTORS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- PART I
- CHAPTER ONE
- CHAPTER TWO
- CHAPTER THREE
- CHAPTER FOUR
- CHAPTER FIVE
- PART II
- CHAPTER SIX
- CHAPTER SEVEN
- CHAPTER EIGHT
- CHAPTER NINE
- PART III
- CHAPTER TEN
- CHAPTER ELEVEN
- CHAPTER TWELVE
- CHAPTER THIRTEEN
- CHAPTER FOURTEEN
