Overview

These essays from various critical disciplines examine how comic books and graphic narratives move between various media, while merging youth and adult cultures and popular and high art. The articles feature international perspectives on comics and graphic novels published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, India, and Japan. Topics range from film adaptation, to journalism in comics, to the current manga boom.

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Author:   Mark Berninger ,  Jochen Ecke ,  Gideon Haberkorn
Publisher:   McFarland & Co Inc
Imprint:   McFarland & Co Inc
Volume:   22
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 1.60cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.422kg
ISBN:  

9780786439874

ISBN 10:   0786439874
Pages:   308
Publication Date:   30 April 2010
Recommended Age:   From 18 years
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Table of Contents Introduction      INTERMEDIAL 1. Spatializing the Movie Screen: How Mainstream Cinema Is Catching Up on the Formal Potentialities of the Comic Book Page      Jochen Ecke 2. The Marvel Universe on Screen: A New Wave of Superhero Movies?      Andreas Rauscher 3. From Trauma Victim to Terrorist: Redefining Superheroes in Post–9/11 Hollywood      Dan A. Hassler-Forest 4. “Picture This”: Disease and Autobiographic Narration in the Graphic Novels of David B and Julie Doucet      Jonas Engelmann 5. Novel-Based Comics      Paul Ferstl 6. In the Art of the Beholder: Comics as Political Journalism      Dirk Vanderbeke INTERNATIONAL 7. The Carrefour of Practice: Québec BD in Transition      Michel Hardy-Vallée 8. The Use of Allusion in Apitz and Kunkel’s Karl Comics      Sandra Martina Schwab 9. Cultural Specifics of a Scottish Comic: Oor Wullie      Anne Hoyer 10. Memento Mori: A Portuguese Style of Melancholy      Mario Gomes and Jan Peuckert 11. Otherness and the European as Villain and Antihero in American Comics      Georg Drennig 12. 2000AD: Understanding the “British Invasion” of American Comics      Ben Little 13. Whatever Happened to All the Heroes? British Perspectives on Superheroes      Karin Kukkonen and Anja Müller-Wood 14. A Cornerstone of Turkish Fantastic Films: From Flash Gordon to Baytekin      Meral Özçınar 15. From Capes to Snakes: The Indianization of the American Superhero      Suchitra Mathur 16. The Roving Eye Meets Traveling Pictures: The Field of Vision and the Global Rise of Adult Manga      Holger Briel 17. Kawaii vs. Rorikon: The Reinvention of the Term Lolita in Modern Japanese Manga      Dinah Zank 18. Mangascape Germany: Comics as Intercultural Neutral Ground      Paul M. Malone INTERDISCIPLINARY 19. Workshop I: Toward a Toolbox of Comics Studies      Karin Kukkonen and Gideon Haberkorn 20. Workshop II: Comics in School      Mark Berninger 21. Workshop III: Teaching Comics and Literary Studies—Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess’ “A Midsummer Night’s Dream”      Mark Berninger 22. Workshop IV: Teaching Comics and Film Studies—Ang Lee’s The Hulk (USA 2003)      Andreas Rauscher 23. Comic Linguistics: Comics and Cartoons in Academic Teaching      Christina Sanchez About the Contributors      Index     

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recommended --<i>Choice</i>; an extremely informative and useful contribution --<i>Studies in Comics</i>.

recommended --Choice an extremely informative and useful contribution --Studies in Comics.

recommended --Choice; an extremely informative and useful contribution --Studies in Comics.

Author Information

Mark Berninger teaches in the department of English at Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany. He has published widely on contemporary drama and comics. Jochen Ecke is a lecturer at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. He has published extensively on popular culture, particularly U.S. and British mainstream comic books. Gideon Haberkorn is in the department of English and Linguistics British Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat in Mainz, Germany. He has published a number of articles on popular culture topics.

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