Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

909 kr

Beställningsvara. Skickas inom 10-15 vardagar

Fri frakt för medlemmar vid köp för minst 249 kr.

Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a "quality comic book," while other works and creators have been left at the fringes of critical analysis.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2016-04-28
Mått148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt358 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels
Antal sidor156
Upplaga2016
FörlagPalgrave Macmillan
ISBN9781137561961

Tillhör följande kategorier

Film inom Kultur
Litteraturvetenskap inom Skonlitteratur
Medievetenskap inom Samhalle och politik
Kulturvetenskap inom Samhalle och politik

Bart Beaty is Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. Among other works, he is the author of Twelve-Cent Archie, Comics Versus Art, and Unpopular Culture.Benjamin Woo is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, Canada. His research examines contemporary geek media cultures, with a particular focus on the producers, institutions, and audiences oriented to comics and graphic novels.

“I would unhesitatingly recommend The Greatest Comic Book of All Time as one of the most important recent publications in comics studies. … professional comics scholars of every stripe should read it. … no one has done a better job than Beaty and Woo of showing us just how much bigger our playground could be.” (Ben Saunders, Inks The Journal of the Comics Studies Society, Vol. 1 (2), 2017)