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Routledge advances in comics studies
Routledge advances in comics studies. ^A1344129
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| Contents |
Doing justice to the past through the representation of violence : three and ancient Sparta / Lynn Fotheringham -- Comics do not forget : historical memory and experiences of violence in the Spanish Civil War and early Francoism / Enrique del Rey Cabero -- Legacies of war : remembering prisoner of war experiences in French comic books about the Second World War / Claire Gorrara -- "I think we're maybe more or less safe here" : violence and solidarity during the Lebanese civil war in Zeina Abirached's A game for swallows / Mihaela Precup -- In a growing violent temper : the Swedish comic market during World War II / Michael F. Scholz -- Will Eisner and the art of war : educational comics in the American defence industry / Malin Bergström -- Bringing the war back home : reflecting violence in Brian Wood's DMZ / Jörn Ahrens -- Infrastructural violence : urbicide, public space, and postwar reconstruction in recent Lebanese graphic memoirs / Dominic Davies -- The lives of others : figuring grievability and justice in contemporary comics and graphic novels / Golnar Nabizadeh -- Scales of violence, scales of justice, and Nate Powell's Any empire / Alex Link -- Oink : the story of a dangerously funny comic / David Huxley. |
| Abstract |
"This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Biographical note | Ian Hague is the third year Contextual and Theoretical Studies Coordinator in the Design School at London College of Communication, UAL. His research takes a materially oriented approach to comics and graphic novels, with a particular focus on the ways in which comics' material forms affect the experiences of their readers. His first monograph, Comics and the Senses:AMultisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels, was published byRoutledgein 2014, and he is the author of numerous articles and book chapters on subjects such as materiality, adaptation and media forms. Ian co-edited Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels (Routledge2015), andwas the founder oftheComics Forumconference series, which has run since 2009(online since 2011). Heisalsoa peer reviewer for various publishers and journals. Ian's current research looks at digital comics as they relate to materiality, economics, histories and geographies. He is a founder member of the Comics Research Hub (CoRH) at the University of the Arts London. Ian Horton is Reader in Graphic Communication at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. His present research is focused in three related areas: comic books, graphic design and illustration. HisbookHard Werken: One for All (Graphic Art & Design 1979-1994)(co-authored with BettinaFurnee)is the first academic study of this influential avant-garde Dutch graphic design studio and was published byValizin 2018. Within the field of Comics Studies he has published work on: national identity in European and British comic books; the relationship between art history and comics; public relations and comic books. In 2014, along with LydiaWysocki(founder of Applied Comics Etc) and JohnSwogger (archeologicalillustrator and comic book artist), he founded the Applied Comics Network. He isa founder member ofthe Comics Research Hub(CoRH)at the University of the Arts London and is associate editor of theJournal of Graphic Novels and Comics. NinaMickwitzis one of the founder members of the Comics Research Hub(CoRH)at University of the Arts London and the author of Documentary Comics: Graphic Truth-telling in aSkepticalTime (Palgrave Macmillan 2015). Situated in the intersection of comics andmobilities, current research includes comics that deal with refugee narratives, migration and displacement. Another area of interest concerns the local/global dynamic of contemporarycomicscultures, and the interactions and transactional networks between smaller, 'peripheral' cultures of production. |
| Source of description | Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on August 22, 2019). |
| Issued in other form | Print version: Contexts of violence in comics. London ; New York : Routledge, 2019 9781138484504 |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2019011458 |
| ISBN | 1351051865 (electronic book) |
| ISBN | 9781351051842 (epub) |
| ISBN | 1351051849 (epub) |
| ISBN | 9781351051859 (pdf) |
| ISBN | 1351051857 (pdf) |
| ISBN | 9781351051835 (mobi) |
| ISBN | 1351051830 (mobi) |
| ISBN | 9781351051866 (electronic bk.) |
| Standard identifier# |
10.4324/9781351051866 |
| Stock number | 9781351051866 Taylor & Francis |
