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Showing 1 to 5 of 5 for “"Comic Studies"”.
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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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European Biographical Graphic Novels about Canonical Painters: An Analysis of Form and Function in the Context of Art Museums
In the 1940s, the very first comics about the lives and works of well-known visual artists appeared in US-American educational youth magazines, representing the birth of the comics genre of the artist’s biography and inaugurating its first publishing boom. The start of the twenty-first century …
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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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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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Sculpted from clay, shaped by power: Feminine narrative and agency in Wonder Woman
… culture and Western ideology. Though much of comics discourse functions on the assumption that superhero narratives are homogenous reflections of this ideological hero narrative, I posit that the Amazonian princess's resilience and iconicity stem from her own narrative's uniquely …