Keywords for Comics Studies - by Ramzi Fawaz & Deborah Whaley & Shelley Streeby (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Across more than fifty essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art, and identifies new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first century. In an original twist on the NYU Keywords mission, the terms in this volume combine attention to the unique aesthetic practices of a distinct medium, comics, with some of the most fundamental concepts of the humanities broadly. Readers will see how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields-including media and film studies, queer and feminist theory, and critical race and transgender studies among others-take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics and more. To do so, Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of original and inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art, but traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative or aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms like trans*, disability, universe, and fantasy; genre terms, like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen and Love and Rockets. Written as much for students and lay readers as professors and experts in the field, Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas"--<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies</b> <p/>Across more than fifty original essays, <i>Keywords for Comics Studies</i> provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. <p/><i>Keywords for Comics Studies</i> presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like <i>Ink</i>, <i>Creator</i>, <i>Border</i>, and <i>Panel</i>; conceptual terms such as <i>Trans*</i>, <i>Disability</i>, <i>Universe</i>, and <i>Fantasy</i>; genre terms like <i>Zine</i>, <i>Pornography</i>, <i>Superhero</i>, and <i>Manga</i>; and canonical terms like <i>X-Men</i>, <i>Archie</i>, <i>Watchmen</i>, and <i>Love and Rockets</i>. <p/>This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. <i>Keywords for Comics Studies</i> revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br><i>Keywords for Comics Studies</i> is the book this field needs right now, featuring its heavy hitters explaining--as well as debating--the complex and conceptual underpinnings of comics today. Savvy, fresh, inclusive, and often brilliant, it's an essential text.-- "Hillary Chute, author of <i>Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere</i>"<br><br>In this latest entry of the sublime <i>Keywords</i> series from NYU Press, Fawaz, Streeby, and Whaley demonstrate, once again, why they are three of the top scholars working in the Humanities today. This volume is a well-curated, intellectually nimble, collection of wonderfully constructed interdisciplinary entries from a compelling spectrum of creators, educators and theorists. This delightfully accessible book belongs in the collection of anyone truly serious about researching the medium of comics and its associated cultures.-- "John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside and illustrator of <i>Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation</i>"<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Ramzi Fawaz</b> is Associate Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is the author of <i>The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics </i>(2016). <p/><b>Deborah Elizabeth Whaley</b> is an artist, curator, writer, and Professor of American Studies and African American Studies at the University of Iowa. She is the author of two books and numerous articles, book chapters, and poetry. Her most recent book is <i>Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime</i>. <p/><b>Shelley Streeby</b> is Professor in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Literature at the University of California, San Diego, and author of <i>Imagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism</i>.</p>
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