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Lewis, A. David and Christine Hoff Kraemer, eds. Graven Images: Religion in Comic Books & Graphic Novels. London, New York: Continuum, 2010. Added by: joachim (4/24/10, 1:32 AM) |
Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781441158475 BibTeX citation key: Lewis2010a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details |
Categories: General Keywords: Collection of essays, Religion Creators: Kraemer, Lewis Publisher: Continuum (London, New York) |
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Once considered a medium suitable only for children's literature, comics have increasingly become a vehicle for innovative religious thought and criticisms of religion, as well as a missionary tool for practitioners of both traditional religions and new religious movements. Addressing the increasing seriousness with which the public has come to view comics as an art form and Americans' fraught but passionate relationship with religion, Graven Images, provides an opportunity for discussion of cutting-edge artistic and social issues by exploring the roles of religion in comic books and graphic novels. Observing the frequency with which religious material – in devout, educational, satirical, or critical contexts – occurs in both independent and mainstream comics, contributors identify the unique advantages of the comics medium for religious messages; analyze how comics communicate such messages; place the religious messages contained in comics books in appropriate cultural, social, and historical frameworks; and articulate the significance of the innovative religious thought taking place in comics. Table of Contents Douglas Rushkoff: Foreword. Looking for God in the Gutter (ix) Christine Hoff Kraemer and A. David Lewis: Introduction (1) NEW INTERPRETATIONS Aaron Ricker Parks: The Devil’s Reading. Revenge and Revelation in American Comics (15) Emily Taylor Merriman: London (& the Mind) as Sacred-Desecrated Place in Alan Moore’s From Hell (24) Laurence Roth: Drawing Contracts. Will Eisner’s Legacy (44) Anne Blankenship: Catholic American Citizenship. Prescriptions for Children from Treasure Chest of Fun and Fact (1946–1963) (63) G. St. John Stott: Gold Plates, Inked Pages. The Authority of the Graphic Novel (78) Darby Orcutt: Comics and Religion. Theoretical Connections (93) Andrew Tripp: Killing the Graven God. Visual Representations of the Divine in Comics (107) Saurav Mohapatra: Echoes of Eternity. Hindu Reincarnation Motifs in Superhero Comic Books (121) Eriko Ogihara-Schuck: The Christianizing of Animism in Manga and Anime. American Translations of Hayao Miyazaki’s Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind (133) RESPONSE & REBELLION Mike Grimshaw: On Preacher (Or, the Death of God in Pictures) (149) A. David Lewis: Superman Graveside. Superhero Salvation beyond Jesus (166) Julia Round: “The Apocalypse of Adolescence”. Use of the Bildungsroman and Superheroic Tropes in Mark Millar & Peter Gross’s Chosen (188) Clay Kinchen Smith: From God Nose to God’s Bosom, Or How God (and Jack Jackson) Began Underground Comics (203) Kate Netzler: A Hesitant Embrace. Comic Books and Evangelicals (218) Kerr Houston: Narrative and Pictorial Dualism in Persepolis and the Emergence of Complexity (230) POSTMODERN RELIGIOSITY G. Willow Wilson: Machina Ex Deus. Perennialism in Comics (249) Megan Goodwin: Conversion to Narrative. Magic as Religious Language in Grant Morrison’s Invisibles (258) Christine Hoff Kraemer and J. Lawton Winslade: “The Magic Circus of the Mind”. Alan Moore’s Promethea and the Transformation of Consciousness through Comics (274) Mark Smylie: Religion and Artesia / Religion in Artesia (292) Emily Ronald: Present Gods, Absent Believers in Sandman (309) Steve Jungkeit: Tell Tale Visions. The Erotic Theology of Craig Thompson’s Blankets (323) Appendix A (345) Appendix B (347) Appendix C (353) Selected Bibliography (357) Index (361) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |