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Author:   Crag Hill (University of Oklahoma, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.408kg
ISBN:  

9781138649903

ISBN 10:   1138649902
Pages:   186
Publication Date:   29 August 2016
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

"Contents Preface 1. Introduction: The Growing Relevance of Comics Crag Hill Section 1: Materiality and the Reading of Comics 2. Designing Meaning: A Multimodal Perspective on Comics Reading Sean P. Connors 3. Multimodal Forms: Examining Text, Image, and Visual Literacy in Daniel Handler’s Why We Broke Up and Markus Zusak’s The Book Thief Amy Bright Section 2: Comics and Bodies 4. Illustrating Youth: A Critical Examination of the Artful Depictions of Adolescent Characters in Comics Mark A. Lewis 5. Just Like Us? LGBTQ Characters in Mainstream Comics A. Scott Henderson Section 3: Comics and the Mind 6. Telling the Untellable: Comics and Language of Mental Illness Sarah Thaller 7. Christian Forgiveness in Gene Luen Yang’s Animal Crackers and Eternal Smile: A Thematic Analysis Jake Stratman Section 4: Comics and Contemporary Society 8. Poverty Lines: Visual Depictions of Poverty and Social Class Realities in Comics Fred Johnson, Whitworth University, and Janine J. Darragh, University of Idaho 9. Can Superhero Comics Defeat Racism?: Black Superheroes ""Torn between Sci-Fi Fantasy and Cultural Reality"" P.L. Thomas 10. Teaching Native American Comics with Post-Colonial Theory Lisa Schade Eckert Section 5: Endpoints 11. Crag Hill List of Contributors Additional resources were compiled by Shaina Thomas."

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For a relatively compact book, Teaching Comics covers substantial ground... Teaching Comics usefully illustrates the importance of comics as a medium and area of study on its own, apart from other media. Though this does not come across as a campaign for legitimacy, it is clear that these scholars have a vested interested in growth and development of this area. - Jacinta Yanders, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature This edited volume provides teachers with a series of theoretical approaches applied to a variety of comics to help them in their own practice. It touches on an impressive breadth of graphic texts and theories. meant to open up new ways of thinking about using comics in the classroom. - John D. Benjamin, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, UTP Journals

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Crag Allen Hill is Assistant Professor of English Education at Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma, USA.

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