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Showing 1 to 20 of 48 for “"Comic Book"”.
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Element Detection in Japanese Comic Book Panels
<p>Comic books are a unique and increasingly popular form of entertainment combining visual and textual elements of communication. This work pertains to making comic books more accessible. Specifically, this paper explains how we detect elements such as speech bubbles present in Japanese comic book …
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Comic Book Collaboration: A Practice-Informed Study of Mutual Artistic Figuration
Collaboration in comics production is widely normalised and recognised in comics cultures yet the dominant paradigm in the discourse perpetuates the auteurist practice of singling out an individual author within such groups as a supposed main author. This practice-informed study investigates the …
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Turning The Page: Fandoms, Multimodality, And The Transformation Of The 'comic Book' Superhero
… becoming more affiliated with film media than comic books. The amount of revenue generated, the formation of new fans, and the interests of comic publishers’ parent companies all suggest that superhero film adaptations are the medium most associated with the superhero character. Such a …
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The Infinite Crisis: How the American Comic Book Has Been Shaped by War
… has been the greatest catalyst for the American comic book medium to become a socio-political change agent within western society. Comic books have become one of the most pervasive influences to global popular culture, with superheroes dominating nearly every popular art form. Yet, the academic …
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Twitter and the comic book fan community: Building identities and relationships in 140 characters
… construction and community formation within the comic book fan community on the social media website, Twitter It had three objectives It investigated how comic book fans constructed their respective identities on Twitter, explored how fans came to identify with the comic book community and why it …
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The Gender Differences in Subjectivity among Superbeing Characters in the Comic Book Film Genre
This study intends to evaluate the extent to which gender inequality permeates representation in the media. By drawing on the literature of feminist phenomenology I define subjectivity as the tendency of characters to interact with the world around them rather than merely have that world act upon …
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Searching for the comic book scholar : an autoethnographic study of educators' experiences with comic books
… an in-depth look at academics who identify as comic book scholars. Comic scholars do not travel the same paths as most other scholars, melding fandom with their scholarly pursuits. Through autoethnography and interviews with 21 other self-identify comic scholars, it is found that this group is …
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Exploring the dynamics of relationships and emotional processes of comic book characters for potential implications in family therapy: A content analysis approach
… likely to be resistant to therapy in general. Comic book therapy is an approach that can be utilized by a therapist to help an adolescent engage in therapy by processing through familiar emotions that the client observes in their favorite comic book characters. Using content analysis, the …
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The impact of a comic book intervention on increasing East African-American adolescents’ HPV vaccine-related knowledge, attitudes and intentions to receive vaccine
… we developed a theory-based, community-informed comic book for adolescents as a part of an intervention targeting mothers and adolescents. We evaluated the impact on participating adolescents’ HPV and HPV vaccine knowledge, attitudes and vaccination intentions. Methods: The culture-specific comic …
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Big Screen Heroes with Paper Voices: A Superhero Adaptation Research Essay
… the public imagination since their creation in comic strips published in newspapers almost one-hundred years ago. But, why exactly has their effect on popular culture, and their subsequent adaptations in various forms of media been so pervasive in the last twenty-five years? What makes these …
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Reading "The uncanny X-Men" : gender, race, and the mutant metaphor in a popular narrative
The first superhero comic book was published in 1938 and since that time the genre has become a staple of American popular culture. While superhero stories have been adapted into every popular storytelling medium, the genre is most closely associated with the comic book industry. This dissertation …
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Comics-based literary trails: the case of Tintin and the Saint-Nazaire landmarks
… object such as a literary trail based on a comic book. The case under study is a literary trail inspired by the comic book character of Tintin in the city of Saint-Nazaire, France. It uses the prescribed holistic approach while relying on interviews and hard data collected from local sources …
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Posthuman: The Great Beyond
<p>Scripts for a six-part comic book mini series.</p>
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The building of the X-men transmedia franchise and how expansive storytelling is affecting Hollywood.
… a case study of the four X-Men films and the comic book series The Uncanny X-Men. This thesis shows how the adaptive process that transforms the character of Magneto from morally ambiguous comic book anti-hero to a more streamlined movie supervillain is illustrative of the two-edged approach …
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The American Way: What Superman, Batman, Spider-Man, and the X-Men Reveal About America
Comic book superheroes have become adopted into American popular culture, and yet few have considered why these characters resonate with Americans. The first comic book superhero premiered in 1938 when Superman appeared on the cover of the first issue of Action Comics. For almost seventy years his …
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Line of Action
Line of Action is a comic book-based play exploring the current youth of the United States.
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WAKANDA FOREVER: AN AFROCENTRIC ANALYSIS OF THE FILM BLACK PANTHER
… own, but it was merely a fictional land from a comic book. This dissertation examines the Black imagination as a tool of Black resistance and liberation through the film Black Panther. It looks to see how the Black imagination has been used to redefine Black people, reinterpret the Black past, …
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The invention of the graphic novel: underground comix and corporate aesthetics
… the process by which stories told in comics (or graphic narratives) form became longer, more complex, concerned with deeper themes and symbolism, and formally more coherent, ultimately requiring a new publication format, which came to be known as the graphic novel. This format was …
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Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History From World War Ii Through the Iraq War
… the primary visual way to convey history. The comic book, which emerged in its modern form in the 1930s, was another form of visual entertainment that gave readers, especially children, a form of escape.</p><p>As World War II began, however, comic books became an integral part of war propaganda …
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