Includes bibliographical references and index Form -- Content -- Production -- Context -- Reception. David Beronä: Wordless comics: the imaginative appeal of Peter Kuper's The System Joseph Witek: Comics modes: caricature and illustration in the Crumb Family's Dirty Laundry Randy Duncan: Image functions: shape and color as hermeneutic images in Asterios Polyp Marc Singer: Time and narrative: unity and discontinuity in The invisibles Pascal Lefèvre: Mise en scène and framing: visual storytelling in Lone Wolf and Cub Andrei Molotiu: Abstract form: sequential dynamism and iconostasis in abstract comics and Steve Ditko's Amazing Spider-Man Jeff McLaughlin: Philosophy: "the triumph of the human spirit" in X-men Amy Kiste Nyberg: Comics journalism: drawing on words to picture the past in Safe Area Goražde Christopher Murray: Propaganda: the pleasures of persuasion in Captain America Mark Rogers: Political economy: manipulating demand and "The Death of Superman" Ian Gordon: Culture of consumption:commodification through Superman--return to Krypton Stanford W. Carpenter: Ethnography of production: editor Axel Alonso and the sale of ideas Matthew J. Smith: Auteur criticism: the re-visionary works of Alan Moore Brad J. Ricca: History: discovering the story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster Peter Coogan: Genre: reconstructing the superhero in All star Superman Leonard Rifas: Ideology: the construction of race and history in Tintin in the Congo Jennifer K. Stuller: Feminism: second-wave feminism in the pages of Lois Lane Ana Merino, translated by Elizabeth Polli: Intertextuality: superrealist intertextualities in Max's Bardín Mel Gibson: Cultural studies: British girls' comics, readers and memories Jeffrey A. Brown: Ethnography: wearing one's fandom Brian Swafford.: Critical tthnography: the comics shop as cultural clubhouse |
