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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.Contents:"Introduction," Anne Magnussen, Erin La Cour and Rikke Platz CortsenPart I: Power and Institutionalization: Shifting Cultural and Medial Perceptions1. "Comics: This Bitter Art," Øystein Sjåstad2. “'You Wouldn’t Get It': 'Penny Arcade' as Gaming CommunicationHub and Webcomic," Andreas Gregersen3. "An Artist, a Cowboy and Some Ontological Jokes: A Nordic Contribution to the Understanding of Comics in Art," Fred Andersson4. "Between Media: David Mack’s Kabuki," Steen Christiansen5. "'Shades of Conan Doyle! A lost world!' Fantasy and Intertextuality in Don Rosa’s 'Escape from Forbidden Valley',” Katja KontturiPart II: Power and the Subject: Exposing the Politics of Subjectivity and Identity6. "Opening a 'Thirdspace': The Unmasking Effects of Comics," Rikke Platz Cortsen and Erin La Cour7. "On Politics, Everyday Life, and Humor in Cecilia Torudd’s Comic Strip Ensamma mamman," Kristina Arnerud Mejhammar8. "Comics Reenactment: Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza," Øyvind Vågnes9. “'[A] matter of SAVED or LOST': Difference, Salvation, and Subjection in Chick Tracts," Martin LundPart III: Power and Society: Reproducing and/or Contesting NationalCommunities and Ideologies10. "Fearing Religious Satire: Religious Censorship and Satirical Counter-Attacks," Dennis Meyhoff Brink11. "Transnationalism in the Finnish 1950s Debate on Comics," Ralf Kauranen12. "Comics in Postcolonial Senegal: Suggesting and Contesting National Identity," Margareta Wallin WictorinWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Comics and Power: Representing and Questioning Culture, Subjects and Communities. To get started finding Comics and Power: Representing and Questioning Culture, Subjects and Communities, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Pages: 355

Format: PDF, EPUB & Kindle Edition

Publisher: Cambridge Scholars

Release: 2015

ISBN: 1443870862

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.Contents:"Introduction," Anne Magnussen, Erin La Cour and Rikke Platz CortsenPart I: Power and Institutionalization: Shifting Cultural and Medial Perceptions1. "Comics: This Bitter Art," Øystein Sjåstad2. “'You Wouldn’t Get It': 'Penny Arcade' as Gaming CommunicationHub and Webcomic," Andreas Gregersen3. "An Artist, a Cowboy and Some Ontological Jokes: A Nordic Contribution to the Understanding of Comics in Art," Fred Andersson4. "Between Media: David Mack’s Kabuki," Steen Christiansen5. "'Shades of Conan Doyle! A lost world!' Fantasy and Intertextuality in Don Rosa’s 'Escape from Forbidden Valley',” Katja KontturiPart II: Power and the Subject: Exposing the Politics of Subjectivity and Identity6. "Opening a 'Thirdspace': The Unmasking Effects of Comics," Rikke Platz Cortsen and Erin La Cour7. "On Politics, Everyday Life, and Humor in Cecilia Torudd’s Comic Strip Ensamma mamman," Kristina Arnerud Mejhammar8. "Comics Reenactment: Joe Sacco’s Footnotes in Gaza," Øyvind Vågnes9. “'[A] matter of SAVED or LOST': Difference, Salvation, and Subjection in Chick Tracts," Martin LundPart III: Power and Society: Reproducing and/or Contesting NationalCommunities and Ideologies10. "Fearing Religious Satire: Religious Censorship and Satirical Counter-Attacks," Dennis Meyhoff Brink11. "Transnationalism in the Finnish 1950s Debate on Comics," Ralf Kauranen12. "Comics in Postcolonial Senegal: Suggesting and Contesting National Identity," Margareta Wallin WictorinWe have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with Comics and Power: Representing and Questioning Culture, Subjects and Communities. To get started finding Comics and Power: Representing and Questioning Culture, Subjects and Communities, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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