Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books write by John Darowski. This book was released on 2022-08-16. Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space. Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such as Marxism; posthumanism; and theories of adaptation, sociology, existentialism, and psychology. Without neglecting the classical era, the book presents case studies ranging from the mainstream comics to the independents, simultaneously offering new critical insights on zones of vacancy within the study of horror comic books while examining a global selection of horror comics from countries such as India (City of Sorrows), France (Zombillénium), Spain (Creepy), Italy (Dylan Dog), and Japan (Tanabe Gou’s Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft), as well as the United States. One of the first books centered exclusively on close readings of an under-studied field, this collection will have an appeal to scholars and students of horror comics studies, visual rhetoric, philosophy, sociology, media studies, pop culture, and film studies. It will also appeal to anyone interested in comic books in general and to those interested in investigating intricacies of the horror genre.
Critical Approaches to Comics
Critical Approaches to Comics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Critical Approaches to Comics write by Matthew J. Smith. This book was released on 2012-03-22. Critical Approaches to Comics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Critical Approaches to Comics offers students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. The authors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including fandom, genre, intertextuality, adaptation, gender, narrative, formalism, visual culture, and much more. As the first comprehensive introduction to critical methods for studying comics, Critical Approaches to Comics is the ideal textbook for a variety of courses in comics studies. Contributors: Henry Jenkins, David Berona, Joseph Witek, Randy Duncan, Marc Singer, Pascal Lefevre, Andrei Molotiu, Jeff McLaughlin, Amy Kiste Nyberg, Christopher Murray, Mark Rogers, Ian Gordon, Stanford Carpenter, Matthew J. Smith, Brad J. Ricca, Peter Coogan, Leonard Rifas, Jennifer K. Stuller, Ana Merino, Mel Gibson, Jeffrey A. Brown, Brian Swafford
Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels
Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels write by Julia Round. This book was released on 2014-02-07. Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in British and American comics today, with particular attention to the DC Vertigo imprint. Part One offers an historical approach to British and American comics and Gothic, summarizing the development of both their creative content and critical models, and discussing censorship, allusion and self-awareness. Part Two brings together some of the gothic narrative strategies of comics and reinterprets critical approaches to the comics medium, arguing for an holistic model based around the symbols of the crypt, the spectre and the archive. Part Three then combines cultural and textual analysis, discussing the communities that have built up around comics and gothic artifacts and concluding with case studies of two of the most famous gothic archetypes in comics: the vampire and the zombie.
Four Color Fear
Four Color Fear - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Four Color Fear write by Greg Sadowski. This book was released on 2010-10-18. Four Color Fear available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A massive collection of never-before-collected pre-Comics Code horror comics of the 1950s. Of the myriad genres comic books ventured into during its golden age, none was as controversial as or came at a greater cost than horror; the public outrage it incited almost destroyed the entire industry. Yet before the watchdog groups and Congress could intercede, horror books were flying off the newsstands. During its peak period (1951–54) over fifty titles appeared each month. Apparently there was something perversely irresistible about these graphic excursions into our dark side, and Four Color Fear collects the finest of these into a single robust volume.
The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics
The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics write by Peter Normanton. This book was released on 2008-01. The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Bringing together some of the most famous names in comic book terror, 'The Mammoth Book of Best Horror Comics' includes work that ranges from the 'weird menace' horror of the ever popular 1950s pre-code comics, to the darkest fantasies of the 90s and 2000s.
