Transnational Perspectives on Graphic Narratives : Comics at the Crossroads /
"Bringing together an international team of scholars, this book charts and analyzes the ways in which comic book history and new forms of graphic narrative have been impacted by aesthetic, social, political, economic, and cultural interactions that reach across national borders in an increasing...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2013.
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Colección: | Bloomsbury collections
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Foreword / John A. Lent
- Introducing transnational perspectives on graphic narratives : comics at the crossroads / Shane Denson, Christina Meyer, and Daniel Stein
- Part I. Politics and poetics. Not just a theme : transnationalism and form in visual narratives of US slavery / Michael A. Chaney
- Transnational identity as shape-shifting : metaphor and cultural resonance in Gene Luen Yang's American born Chinese / Elisabeth El Rafaie
- Cosmopolitan suspicion : comics journalism and graphic silence / Georgiana Banita
- Staging cosmopolitanism : the transnational encounter in Joe Sacco's Footnotes in Gaza / Aryn Bartley
- "Trying to recapture the front" : a transnational perspective on Hawaii in R. Kikuo Johnson's Night fisher / Iris-Aya Laemmerhirt
- Folding nations, cutting borders : transnationalism in the comics of Warren Craghead III / Daniel Wüllner
- Part II. Transnational and transcultural superheroes. Batman goes transnational : the global appropriation and distribution of an American hero / Katharina Eieloch and Sharif Bitar
- Spider-Man India : comic books and the translating/transcreating of American cultural narratives / Shilpa Davé
- Of transcreations and transpacific adaptations : investigating Manga versions of Spider-Man / Daniel Stein
- Warren Ellis : performing the transnational author in the American comics mainstream / Jochen Ecke
- "Truth, justice, and the Islamic way" : conceiving the cosmopolitan Muslim superhero in The 99 / Stefan Meier
- Part III. Translations, transformations, migrations. Lost in translation : narratives of transcultural displacement in the wordless graphic novel / Florian Groß
- Hard-boiled silhouettes : transnational remediation and the art of omission in Frank Miller's Sin City / Frank Mehring
- The "big picture" as a multitude of fragments : Jason Lutes's depiction of Weimar Republic Berlin / Lukas Etter
- "Scott Pilgrim gets it together" : the cultural crossovers of Bryan Lee O'Malley / Mark Berninger
- A disappointing crossing : the North American reception of Asterix and Tintin / Jean-Paul Gabilliet
- Afterword : framing, unframing, reframing : retconning the transnational work of comics / Shane Denson.