BOBC

WIKINDX Resources

Woo, Benjamin and Jeremy Stoll, eds. The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics. Jackson: Univ. Press of Mississippi, 2021. 
Added by: joachim (02/11/2021, 01:00)   Last edited by: joachim (29/12/2021, 12:55)
Resource type: Book
Language: en: English
ID no. (ISBN etc.): 9781496834645
BibTeX citation key: Woo2021
Email resource to friend
View all bibliographic details
Categories: General
Keywords: Collection of essays
Creators: Stoll, Woo
Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi (Jackson)
Views: 17/1274
Attachments   Table of Contents [3/73]
Abstract
The Comics World: Comic Books, Graphic Novels, and Their Publics is the first collection to explicitly examine the production, circulation, and reception of comics from a social-scientific point of view. Designed to promote interdisciplinary dialogue about theory and methods in comics studies, this volume draws on approaches from fields as diverse as sociology, political science, history, folklore, communication studies, and business, among others, to study the social life of comics and graphic novels.
Taking the concept of a “comics world”—that is, the collection of people, roles, and institutions that “produce” comics as they are—as its organizing principle, the book asks readers to attend to the contexts that shape how comics move through societies and cultures. Each chapter explores a specific comics world or particular site where comics meet one of their publics, such as artists and creators; adaptors; critics and journalists; convention-goers; scanners; fans; and comics scholars themselves. Through their research, contributors demonstrate some of the ways that people participate in comics worlds and how the relationships created in these spaces can provide different perspectives on comics and comics studies.
Moving beyond the page, The Comics World explores the complexity of the lived reality of the comics world: how comics and graphic novels matter to different people at different times, within a social space shared with others.
  
WIKINDX 6.8.2 | Total resources: 14513 | Username: -- | Bibliography: WIKINDX Master Bibliography | Style: Modern Language Association (MLA)