A comics studies reader / edited by Jeet Heer and Kent Worcester

Incluye bibliografía e índice.

Why Are Comics Still in Search of Cultural Legitimization? / Thierry Groensteen. -- Historical Considerations. -- Rodolphe Töpffer's Aesthetic Revolution / David Kunzle. -- How Comics Came to Be: Through the Juncture of Word and Image from Maganize Cag Cartoons to Newspaper Strips, Tool for Critical Appreciation plus Seldom Witnessed Historical Facts / Robert C. Harvey. -- The "Vulgar" Comic Strip / Gilbert Seldes. -- Excerpt from Seduction of the Innocent / Fredric Wertham. -- William Gaines and the Battle over EC Comics / Amy Kiste Nyberg. -- The Comics Debates Internationally / John A. Lent. -- The Definition of the Superhero / Peter Coogan. -- Two Boys from Twin Cities / M. Thomas Inge. -- Craft, Art, Form. -- Caricatura / David Carrier. -- Beyond Comparison / W. J. T. Mitchell / The Impossible Definition / Thierry Groenteen. -- An Art of Tensions / Charles Hatfield. -- The Arrow and the Grid / Joseph Witek. -- The Construction of Space Comics/ Pascal Lefèvre. -- The Acoustic of MAngas / Robert S. Petersen. -- Culture, Narrative, Identity. -- Ally Sloper: The Firs Comics Super SUperstar? / Roger Sabin. -- Jackie and the Problem of Romance / Martin Barker. -- Home Loving and Without Vices / Anne Rubenstein. -- Autobiography as Authenticity / Bart Beaty. -- MAnga vesus Kibyōshi / Adam L. Kern. -- Beyond Shuojo, Blending Gender / Fusami Ogi. -- Scrutiny and Evaluation. -- The Innocents March Into History / Ariel Dorfman. -- The Garden in the Machine / Thomas Andrae. -- An Examination of "Master Race" / John Benson, David Kasakove, Art Spiegelman. -- The Comics of Chris Ware / Gene KAnnenberg, Jr. -- Transcending Comic: Crossing the Boundaries of the Medium / Annalisa di Liddo. -- History and Graphic Representation in Maus / Hillary Chute.

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