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Meskin, Aaron and Roy T. Cook, eds. The Art of Comics: A Philosophical Approach. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell, 2012. Added by: joachim (11/11/12, 9:53 PM) Last edited by: joachim (11/12/12, 1:41 AM) |
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| Resource type: Book Language: en: English ID no. (ISBN etc.): 978-1-4443-3464-7 BibTeX citation key: Meskin2012a Email resource to friend View all bibliographic details  |
Categories: General Keywords: Collection of essays, Philosophy Creators: Cook, Meskin Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell (Chichester) |
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The Art of Comics is the first-ever collection of essays published in English devoted to the philosophical topics raised by comics and graphic novels. In an area of growing philosophical interest, this volume constitutes a great leap forward in the development of this fast expanding field, and makes a powerful contribution to the philosophy of art. Table of Contents Editors’ Acknowledgments (vii) List of Figures (viii) Notes on Contributors (ix) Warren Ellis: Foreword (xii) Aaron Meskin and Roy T. Cook: The Art and Philosophy of Comics: An Introduction (xiv) I. The Nature and Kinds of Comics (1) 1 John Holbo: Redefining Comics (3) 2 Aaron Meskin: The Ontology of Comics (31) 3 Christy Mag Uidhir: Comics and Collective Authorship (47) 4 Catharine Abell: Comics and Genre (68) II. Comics and Representation (85) 5 Thomas E. Wartenberg: Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image and Text in Comics (87) 6 Patrick Maynard: What’s So Funny? Comic Content in Depiction (105) 7 Darren Hudson Hick: The Language of Comics (125) III. Comics and the Other Arts (145) 8 Henry John Pratt: Making Comics into Film 147 9 Roy T. Cook: Why Comics Are Not Films: Metacomics and Medium‐Specific Conventions (165) 10 David Carrier: Proust’s In Search of Lost Time : The Comics Version (188) Index (203) Added by: joachim Last edited by: joachim |