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Comics are stuff; comics tell stories about stuff; and they display stuff.When we use the phrase "and stuff" in everyday speech, we often mean something vague, something like "etcetera." In this book, stuff refers not only to physical objects, but also to the emotions, sentimenta...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Jenkins, Henry 1958- (Autor, Verfasser.)
Formato: Electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York New York University Press [2020]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Media Studies.
transformative works.
toxic masculinity.
still life painting.
sketchbook.
scrapbooks.
monster culture.
mise-en-scene.
material culture.
accumulation;Alice in Wonderland;Animation history;army surplus;art world;autobiography;Cabinet d'amateur;Caricature;Chicago;Collage;collecting;consciousness raising;Crooners;Culling;Display;Early comic strips;Early photography;family history;fantasy;furniture;Graphic novels;Happy objects;hoarding;Homosocial Relations;identity;inheritance.
Wonder cabinets.
White supremacy.
WWII veterans.
Underground comics.
Trickster stories.
Transitional objects.
Trading.
Toy.
The residual.
The abject.
Southern folklore.
Senior citizens.
Rituals.
Relic.
Racism.
Nostalgia.
Music hall.
Midcentury Podern.
Memory.
Meaning.
Local History.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Comics and stuff : core concepts
  • How to look at stuff : from still life to graphic novel
  • "What are you collecting now?" : Seth and his finds
  • "The stuff of dreams" : Kim Deitch's remarkable displays
  • Wonders, curiosities, and diversions : accumulation in Bryan Talbot's Alice in Sunderland
  • "Monsters" and other "things" : Emil Ferris's transformative vision
  • Scrapbooks and army surplus : C. Tyler's You'll never know
  • Sorting, culling, hoarding, and cleaning : Joyce Farmer's Special exits and Roz Chast's Can't we talk about something more pleasant?
  • "Despicable collectibles" : confronting the residual in Jeremy Love's Bayou
  • Epilogue: Unpacking my comics.

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