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Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics.

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Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fandom, genre, intertextuality, adaptation, gender, narrative, formalism, visual culture, and much more.

As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics, Critical Approaches to Comics is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies.

Contributors: Henry Jenkins, David Berona, Joseph Witek, Randy Duncan, Marc Singer, Pascal Lefevre, Andrei Molotiu, Jeff McLaughlin, Amy Kiste Nyberg, Christopher Murray, Mark Rogers, Ian Gordon, Stanford Carpenter, Matthew J. Smith, Brad J. Ricca, Peter Coogan, Leonard Rifas, Jennifer K. Stuller, Ana Merino, Mel Gibson, Jeffrey A. Brown, Brian Swafford

"In this volume, ably edited by Randy Duncan and Matthew J. Smith, some of the brightest and best international comics critics have joined forces to apply a variety of theoretical approaches to selected major texts to elucidate their appeal for the modern reader. The result is a user-friendly guide for professors, students, and general readers alike. Criticism has seldom been more fun." ?M. Thomas Inge, Blackwell Professor of Humanities, Randolph-Macon College

"The strength of this overview is in its truly admirable breadth?the broad range of objects it analyzes along with the various methodologies it brings to bear on comics. This volume is a valuable introduction to the lexicon of what many are now calling ?comics studies? that usefully seeks to enlarge the emerging field as opposed to fixing it down." ?Hillary Chute, Neubauer Family Assistant Professor, English, University of Chicago

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Introduction: Should We Discipline the Reading of Comics?  Henry Jenkins  I. Form  1. Wordless Comics: The Imaginative Appeal of Peter Kuper's The System  David Berona  2. Comics Modes: Caricature and Illustration in the Crumb Family's Dirty Laundry  Joseph Witek  3. Image Functions: Shape and Color as Hermeneutic Images in Asterios Polyp  Randy Duncan  4. Time and Narrative: Unity and Discontinuity in The Invisibles  Marc Singer  5. Mise en scene and Framing: Visual Storytelling in Lone Wolf and Cub  Pascal Lefevre  6. Abstract Form: Sequential Dynamism and Iconostasis in Abstract Comics and Steve Ditko's Amazing Spider-Man  Andrei Molotiu  II. Content  7. Philosophy: "The Triumph of the Human Spirit" in X-Men  Jeff McLaughlin  8. Journalism: Drawing on Words to Picture the Past in Safe Area Gorazde  Amy Kiste Nyberg  9. Propaganda: The Pleasures of Persuasion in Captain America  Christopher Murray  III. Production   10. Political Economy: Manipulating Demand and "The Death of Superman"  Mark Rogers  11. Culture of Consumption: Commodification through Superman: Return to Krypton  Ian Gordon  12.  Ethnography of Production: Editor Axel Alonso and the Sale of Ideas  Stanford Carpenter  13. Auteur Criticism: The Re-Visionary Works of Alan Moore  Matthew J. Smith  14. History: Discovering the Story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster  Brad J. Ricca  IV. Context  15. Genre: Reconstructing the Superhero in All Star Superman  Peter Coogan  16. Ideology: The Construction of Race and History in Tintin in the Congo  Leonard Rifas  17. Feminism: Second Wave Feminism in the Pages of Lois Lane  Jennifer K. Stuller  18. Intertextuality: Surrealist Intertextualities in Max's Bardin  Ana Merino  V. Reception  19. Cultural Studies: British Girls' Comics, Readers and Memories  Mel Gibson  20. Ethnography: Wearing One's Fandom  Jeffrey A. Brown  21. Critical Ethnography: The Comics Shop as Cultural Clubhouse  Brian Swafford