Reading Comics : Language, Culture, and the Concept of the Superhero in Comic Books

ISBN-13: 9780815333449 / Angielski / Twarda / 2000 / 252 str.

Mila Bongeo; Mila Bongco

Opis

This work examines how the definition of the medium, as well as its language, readership, genre conventions and marketing and distribution have kept comic books within the realm of popular culture. This study seeks to provide a contribution to the current literature on comics and helps clarify concepts and definitions useful in studying the medium. The evolution of the comic book superhero - from the patriotic heroes of the 1940s to the muscular rebels of the 1990s - is analyzed, showing how as the superheroes change, so does the style and content of the books.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Comics and Cultural Studies: Sites for Struggle; Chapter 2: Responses to Comicbooks and the Concept of the Popular; Chapter 3: On the Language of Comics and the Reading Process; Chapter 4: Superhero Comicbooks; Chapter 5: Factors that Changed Superhero Comicbooks; Chapter 6: Frank Miller's The Dark Knights Returns (1986); Chapter 7: A Glimpse at the Comics Scene after 1986; Index

O autorze

Bongco, Mila