Representing Acts of Violence in Comics

ISBN-13: 9781138484535 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 196 str.

Ian Hague; Ian Gordon; Nina Mickwitz

Opis

This book examines the ways in which individual moments of violence develop, and are presented, in comics and graphic novels. It raises questions about depiction and the act of showing violence, but it also considers the ways in which violence can affect those involved over the long term.

Recenzje

'This book brings new and wide-ranging perspectives from outstanding scholars to an area of comics that critical discourse has tended to shy away from: violence, whether flamboyantly exaggerated, or painfully recovered and made visible.' -Ann Miller, University Fellow, University of Leicester, UK

Spis treści

Representing Acts of Violence in Comics Introduction
Nina Mickwitz, Ian Horton & Ian Hague Depiction Picturing National and personal acts of violence: modes of depiction in Barefoot Gen John Miers Bloody Murder in the Bible: Graphic Representations of the "First Murder"
in Biblical Comics
Zanne Domoney-Lyttle A Balancing Act: Didactic Spectacle in Jack Jackson’s "Nits Make Lice"
and Slow Death Comix
Laurike in ‘t Veld Embodiment Seeing (in) Red: "Thick" Violence in Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas’s
Red: A Haida Manga
Laura A. Pearson Embodied Reading and Performing Vulnerability in Joe Sacco’s The Great War
Eszter Szép Humour "Boiled or fried, Dennis?" Violence, play and narrative in ‘Dennis the Menace and Gnasher’
Christopher J. Thompson Humour as a strategy in communicating sexual and domestic abuse of women in comics
Nicola Streeten Gendered and Sexual Violence The risks of representation: making gender and violence visible in The Ballad
of Halo Jones
Maggie Gray Unmaking the Apocalypse: Pain, Violence, Torture, and Weaponizing the Black, Female Body
Joseph Willis Killgrave, The Purple Man
Jamie Brassett and Richard Reynolds