{"product_id":"keywords-for-comics-studies-9781479816682","title":"Keywords for Comics Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ramzi Fawaz | Deborah Whaley | Shelley Streeby\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: New York University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Comics \u0026amp; Graphic Novels\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross more than fifty original essays, \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like \u003ci\u003eInk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBorder\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePanel\u003c\/i\u003e; conceptual terms such as \u003ci\u003eTrans*\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDisability\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUniverse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFantasy\u003c\/i\u003e; genre terms like \u003ci\u003eZine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePornography\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSuperhero\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eManga\u003c\/i\u003e; and canonical terms like \u003ci\u003eX-Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWatchmen\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas.","brand":"Atlantic Books","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":46451958546583,"sku":"9781479816682","price":10865.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781479816682.webp?v=1769139101","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/keywords-for-comics-studies-9781479816682","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}