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Showing 1 to 20 of 71 for “"comic books"”.
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Using Comic Books to Motivate Literacy Development in the Classroom
… of the literature is to examine ways of using comic books as a new medium to help increase students' motivation to read and increase their skills in literacy. Comic books are no longer just fantastical stories about superheroes vs. supervillains. They cover social aspects of current society. …
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Chasing Captain Canada: National Identity Challenged Through Superheroes In Canadian Comic Books
… in domestically produced Canadian superhero comics, with an eye on how Indigenous superhero comics published within Canada may enrich or complicate this landscape. Domestically produced comics and/or graphic novels are defined in this thesis as ones authored and published within Canada. …
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The relationship between children's tendencies in choosing comic books and certain other traits
… if any might exist between the quality of comic books read by certain seventh-grade children and their intelligence quotients, reading scores, and language scores. In attempting to carry out its purpose, two hundred seventh-grade children, attending three elementary schools in Wythe County, …
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(Re)Framing Resistance: The Role of Indigenous Comic Books in the Past, Present, and Future
… an interdisciplinary approach to understand how comics books have become a medium of Indigenous resistance to and a remediation of popular media such as comics which often perpetrate racialized stereotypes as the dominant representation of indigeneity. Furthermore, this research will consider how …
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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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Comic Books and Culture in the German Democratic Republic, 1955-1990: Between Constructions of Power and Childhood
… the regime authorized the creation of socialist comics in order to fill the gaps these regulations left in children’s entertainment. However, as socialist alternatives to the perceived trash and filth represented by western comics and American influence, these East German comics were employed as …
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The construction of ethnic identities in comic books : analysing the (re)presentation of Self and Others in 'The Adventures of Tintin'
… and controversial 20th -Century comic book series, Hergé’s The Adventures of Tintin. It explores how selected character roles are constructed, especially regarding their function, ethnicity, and dispersion throughout different narrative plots in these comics. Specifically, the aim …
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Where Was the Outrage? The Lack of Public Concern for the Increasing Sensationalism in Marvel Comics in a Conservative Era 1978-1993
<p>This thesis explains the connection between comics and public reactions in two separate eras of conservatism. Comic books were targeted by critics in the 1950s because their content challenged conservative norms. In 1954, a U.S. Senate subcommittee hearing on Juvenile Delinquency tried to …
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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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Imaginary Women: Violence and the Postmodern Construction of Gender in DC's New 52
… of violence has been intertwined with superhero comic books since the genre's inception. In 1999, comic book author and industry insider Gail Simone called attention to the genre's tendency to injure, cripple, kill, or disempower its female characters, oftentimes in order to advance the plot or …
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Protecting your eyes : censorship and moral standards of decency in Japan and the United States as reflected in children's media
… Anime (Japanese animation) and manga (Japanese comic books) are extremely popular in Japan amongst consumers of all ages. In America and other non-Japanese countries, the international anime and manga fanbase is rapidly expanding. Yet, in some Western countries such as the United States, comic …
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"The Eye Is The Window for the Soul:" Essays on the American Anti-Comics Movement
… twenty years, from the advent of superhero comics in 1939 to the end of the 1950s, comic books were a profound cultural phenomenon in midcentury America. Millions of Americans read comics, child and adult alike, but comics retained a perception as a medium consumed primarily by children. A …
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Pedagogy of Graphic Novels
… novels, have spent many years on shelves with comic books about superheroes and adventurers. They officially gained notoriety in 1992 with Art Spiegelman’s Maus, and at this time, critics and scholars began to take notice. However, graphic novels have not been fully adapted by academia. Graphic …
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Indian comics as public culture
The Amar Chitra Katha (ACK) series of comic books have, since 1967, dominated the market for domestic comic books in India. In this thesis, I examine how these comics function as public culture, creating a platform around which groups and individuals negotiate and re-negotiate their identities …
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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 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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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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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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How to Cope with Crisis: Examining the Regressive state of Comics through DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths
The sudden and popular rise of comic book during the last decade has seen many new readers, filmgoers, and television watchers attempt to navigate the world of comics amid a staggering influx of content produced by both Marvel and DC Comics. This process of navigation is, of course, not without …
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