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Showing 1 to 20 of 190 for “"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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Gay Comics and Queer Male Comics in America: History, Conventions and Challenges
This thesis is focused on American gay male comics and queer alternative comics. I argue that the field of gay male comics' production is dominated by two key genres: gay porno comics and gay ghetto comics. The conventions and characteristics of these genres help to construct and reinforce a …
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Comics as Confrontation : A Case for Breaking Silence around Sexual Abuse in Comics
… Feral (2025), to elucidate the ways in which comics are a potent medium for survivors to confront, not only our own memories by stringing together a sequential narrative, but also the audience, with the visualization of a lived experience that needs urgent acknowledgement. After a lifetime in …
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Comics in education. The link between visual and verbal literacy: how readers read comics
This case study investigates how readers read comics. The work, based upon Roland Barthes' concept of relay discussed in Image, Music, Text (1977), considers that a reader understands the comic at the higher level of the diegesis by switching between signifying systems. The research findings …
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Multimodal Composition and the Rhetoric of Comics: A Study of Comics Teams in Collaboration
… three unique multimodal collaborations of comics authors. As a visual rhetoric scholar with a personal focus on teaching students about composing in all media, I am drawn to asking questions about how arguments are composed using multimodal means. My personal and scholarly interest in …
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Indian comics as public culture
… 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 (religious, class, gender, regional, national) through their experience of the mass-media phenomenon of ACK. I …
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Comics : the (not only) visual medium
Comics studies tends to privilege the visual, and some scholars, like Scott McCloud believe that comics are solely visual. However, as Ian Hague has noted, the idea that comics are a solely visual medium is not only incomplete but does not align with what the sciences of perception and embodied …
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How to Cope with Crisis: Examining the Regressive state of Comics through DC Comics' Crisis on Infinite Earths
… 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 precedence: a similar phenomenon occurred during the 1980s in which new readers turned to the genre as superhero …
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Graphic Medicine: Depicting Invisible Illnesses in Comics
Graphic medicine comics grant visibility to people with invisible illnesses, whose suffering routinely goes unseen and misunderstood by themselves and others. The term “invisible illness” refers to a wide range of conditions that place the ill in a position between an outer appearance of normalcy …
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Comics and Conflict: War and Patriotically Themed Comics in American Cultural History From World War Ii Through the Iraq War
… also examines how war- and patriotically-themed comics evolved from soldier-drawn reflections of society, eventually developing along with the broader comic book medium into a mirror of American society during times of conflict. These comic books generally reflected patriotic fervor, but …
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Storytelling for a changing world: Comics as agitprop
… It also makes a case for how creators of comics can learn from urban practices to create spaces to form community and imagine a more just world through their practice.</p>
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Nonsense comix presents : the cultural rhetoric of comics
Thesis (M.A.)--Michigan State University. Digital Rhetoric and Professional Writing, 2010
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The Anthropomorphic Body as Genre: Comics and Fetish
This thesis examines the anthropomorphic body in comics as a site of fetish, desire, and othering in order to understand the use of such bodies to represent or subvert discourses surrounding gender, race, and power. Because the anthropomorphic body itself is a hybrid and a fetish object, and …
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Comics carnet : the graphic novelist as global nomad
… is used to identify a new graphic novel genre, 'comics camet', and its key features. The study situates comics camet in a historical context and shows it to be the result of a cross-pollination between the American and French comics traditions. Comics camet incorporates features from other …
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Haunted spaces: Visualising the witch in expanded comics
… can be told using papercut as form of expanded comics, using walking and collaboration as creative process. The two papercut stories in the creative output sit at the intersection of story (the witches), people (the collaborators) and place (the spaces that house these stories), each component …
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Reading the Superhuman, Embodiments of Multiplicity in Marvel Comics
… of embodied multiplicities within superhero comics from the postwar era using the example of comics produced by the Marvel group between 1961 and 2005. This project argues that the superheroes created during this era reflect major social and cultural upheavals that continue to reshape the …
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Hyper-Comics: Interactive Third and Fourth-Dimensional Sequential Art
… HTML. This project shows the versatility of the comics form, as the project seeks to expand upon the possibilities of comics without stepping outside the boundaries of the format.</p>
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Mind the gap : absence as signifying function in comics
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. English, 2010
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Superhero Healthcare: Graphic Medicine, Genre and Public Education Comics
… history of superhero public information comics. Prior to this research, the two genres had not been placed in dialogue with one another, this study aims to identify the commonalities between them and make this more explicit. This thesis shall discuss this through addressing three key …
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