Overview

This volume showcases some of the best research published in the Studies in Comics journal. Comics have always embraced a diversity of formats, existing in complex relationships with other media, and been dynamic in their response to new technologies and means of distribution. This collection explores interactions between comics and other media and technologies, employing a wide range of theoretical and critical perspectives. By focusing on key critical concepts within multimodality (transmediality, adaptation, intertextuality) and addressing multiple platforms and media (digital, analog, music, prose, linguistics, graphics), this collection expands and develops existing comics theory and addresses multiple other media and disciplines. This volume demonstrates the evolution of comics studies over the last decade and shows how this research field has engaged with various media and technologies in a continuously evolving, multimodal artistic and production environment.

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Author:   Madeline B. Gangnes (University of Scranton, USA) ,  Christopher Murray (University of Dundee) ,  Julia Round (Bournemouth University)
Publisher:   Intellect Books
Imprint:   Intellect Books
ISBN:  

9781789389494

ISBN 10:   1789389496
Pages:   300
Publication Date:   03 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
Availability:   Out of stock  

Table of Contents

List of Figures Foreword    Roger Sabin Introduction    Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round SECTION ONE: MULTIPLICITY AND (INTER)TEXTUALITY  The Shape of Comic Book Reading A. David Lewis Re-inventing the Origins of the Boy Who Wouldn’t Grow Up: Regis Loisel’s Peter Pan            Armelle Blin-Rolland The Myth of Eco: Cultural Populism and Comics Studies            Marc Singer Intertwining Verbal and Visual Elements in Printed Narratives for Adults            Pascal Lefèvre SECTION TWO: METACOMICS AND THE DIGITAL  Spiegelman’s Magic Box: MetaMaus and the Archive of Representation            Elisabeth R. Friedman Meaning from Movement: Blurring the Temporal Border between Animation and Comics            Joshua Gowdy SECTION THREE: LINGUISTICS AND LANGUAGE  Narrative, Language, and Comics-as-Literature            Hannah Miodrag The Cognitive Grammar of ‘I’: Viewing Arrangements in Graphic Autobiographies            Christian W. Schneider SECTION FOUR: SOUND AND VISION  Sound Affects: Visualizing Music, Musicians, and (Sub)Cultural Identity in BECK and Scott Pilgrim            Camilo Diaz Pino The Musicalization of Graphic Narratives and P. Craig Russell’s Graphic Novel Operas, 'The Magic Flute' and 'Salome'            Victoria Addis SECTION FIVE: FROM MATERIAL TO TRANSTEXTUAL AND BEYOND  'Animating' the Narrative in Abstract Comics            Paul Fisher Davies Multimodal Duck-Rabbitry: Multistable Perception and the Narrative Potential of Fold-Ins            Thomas Hamlyn-Harris and Ross Watkins Resisting Narrative Immersion            Greice Schneider Square Eyes: Augmenting Bodies, Boredom, and Things            Merlyn Seller Afterword            Madeline B. Gangnes, Christopher Murray, and Julia Round   Notes on Contributors Index

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Madeline Gangnes is an assistant professor of English at the University of Scranton in Pennsylvania, USA. She is a co-editor of Studies in Comics and the advisory editor of Sequentials. Her work appears in Studies in Comics, the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics, the Victorian Periodicals Review, and Key Terms in Comics Studies, among other publications. Professor Christopher Murray is professor of Comics Studies and English Literature in the School of Humanities, Social Sciences and Law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He leads the Masters in Comics and Graphic Novels and is director of the Scottish Centre for Comics Studies and Dundee Comics Creative Space. He is a founding co-editor of Studies in Comics. Julia Round’s books include Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels (2014) and the award-winning Gothic for Girls (2019). She is associate professor of English and Comics Studies at Bournemouth University, UK, and one of the founders and co-editors of Studies in Comics journal and the Encapsulations book series.

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