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Showing 1 to 6 of 6 for “"american comics"”.
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Comics Ideology: Racism in American Comics During World War II
… thesis argues that cultural media, specifically comics, is affected by politics and that comics affect politics. This paper examines the Japanese-US. conflict during the Second World War and anti-Japanese sentiments in American society, politics, and culture to guide the argument. First, this …
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Curatorial Constellations: Queer and Feminist Approaches to Latin American Comics
… approaches to contemporary alternative Latin American comics published between 2011 and 2020. Inspired by frameworks developed by Gayatri Gopinath, José Muñoz, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui, I coin the category of curatorial constellations to understand how this corpus of …
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Expanded Universes: Reading French Literature of the Long Thirteenth Century with Twentieth and Twenty-First Century American Comics and Fandom Practices
… The first part reads Arthurian romance alongside comics theory and Marvel comics. Collaborative interests generate serialised content, forming an expanded universe over decades. Chapter 1 pursues a formal analysis of interlace across the Lancelot-Grail, through a close reading of Lancelot’s …
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Men of Steel, Cups of Tea: Transatlantic Narratives and Exchange in Contemporary Comics
This study investigates comics that have been produced by three British writers, John Wagner, Garth Ennis and Grant Morrison, for the American comics industry, alongside comics produced for the British comics industry that focus on America or are influenced by American popular culture. The aim is …
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Perils of the Heroine: The Historic Role of Woman in Comics
<p>Now more than ever the comics industry is welcoming diversity in its creators and stories, but with its historically misogynistic past, what legacy are creators inheriting? This essay seeks to explore that history, delving into the various eras of American Comics and how sexism shaped them. From …
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Of Gods and Girls: The Teen Superheroine in British and American Girls' Comics from 1940-1984
… superheroine (the super-girl) across two comics cultures: the United States of America (US) and the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland (UK/Britain). It considers comics from 1940 to 1984, and its focus are those super-girls who appeared in girls’ comics, or comics which …