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Brookes, Gareth. Reading Comics Through The Body: Embodiment and materiality in the making and reading of comics. Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels. New York [etc.]: Palgrave Macmillan, 2026. Added by: joachim (21/02/2026, 10:34) Last edited by: joachim (21/02/2026, 10:37) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English Published DOI: 10.1007/978-3-032-06874-3 ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-3-032-06873-6 BibTeX citation key: Brookes2026 Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Body, Brookes. Gareth, Creative process, Materiality, Production, USA Creators: Brookes Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan (New York [etc.]) |
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This book is about what happens to comics theory when we privilege the relationship between materiality and the body in the analysis of comics. Focusing on how these factors relate to making, technological reproduction and the experience of reading comics, it aims to establish a new theoretical model for comics studies. Through a close consideration of how technologies of reproduction translate material and embodied traces into the surface of comics, the book argues that tactile and haptic encounters with these surfaces can organise the narrative structure of comics and affect the experience of reading them. The book aims to establish that comics can be thought of as networked sites of embodied encounter in which embodied responses become a register of meaning. Added by: joachim |