Hellboy's world : comics and monsters on the margins /

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"Hellboy, Mike Mignola's famed comic book demon hunter, wanders through a haunting and horrific world steeped in the history of weird fictions and wide-ranging folklores. Hellboy's World shows how our engagement with Hellboy is also a highly aestheticized encounter with the medium of...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Bukatman, Scott, 1957- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Mignola, Mike > Criticism and interpretation.
Hellboy > (Fictitious character from Mignola)
Mignola, Mike
Comic books, strips, etc. > United States > History and criticism.
ART > Techniques > Drawing.
COMICS & GRAPHIC NOVELS > Superheroes.
Comic books, strips, etc.
United States
Graphic novels
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Graphic novels.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : Benjamin, reading, and the comics
  • Enworlding Hellboy : cosmology and franchise
  • Occult detection, sublime horror, and predestination
  • Children's books, color, and other non-linear pleasures
  • Hellboy and the codicological imagination
  • Hellboy at the Gates of Hell : sculpture, stasis, and the comics page
  • Coda-Mignola, Goya, and the monsters.

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