Comics Studies - Couverture souple

Aldama, Frederick Luis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0367196875 ISBN 13 : 9780367196875

Editeur : Routledge, 2026

Synopsis

An accessible guide to the central concepts and issues that inform Comics Studies. It summarizes, explains, contextualizes, and assesses key critical concepts, perspectives, developments, and debates in the field.

At once comprehensive in coverage and detailed and specific in examples analyzed, the book's entries provide an essential overview of the key concepts in the field of Comics Studies, as shaped by historical, social, cultural, regional, and global contexts. The 22 concepts covered include:

- Adaptation

- Aesthetics

- Animals

- Architecture

- Autobiography

- Censorship

- Convergence

- Empire & Postcolonial

- Feminism

- History

- Indigeneity

- Intersectionality

- Language

- LGBTQ

- Memoir

- Mind/Bodies

- Race

- Regionalism

- Sacred

- Social Movements

- Speculative

- Youth

Fully cross-referenced and complete with suggestions for further reading and a glossary, Comics Studies: The Key Concepts is an essential guide for students of media and cultural studies, art and visual culture, gender and women's studies, and literature that are studying comics and graphic novels.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Frederick Luis Aldama holds the Jacob & Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities at the University of Texas, Austin and is also founder and director of the Latinx Pop Lab and the annual BIPOC PoP: Comics, Gaming & Animation Arts Expo & Symposium. He is author, co-author, and editor of over 50 books, including The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Popular Culture (2016), Comics Studies Here and Now (2018), and The Routledge Companion to Gender and Sexuality in Comics Studies (2020). Aldama is also Editor-in-Chief of Latinx Pop Magazine and FlowerSong Press and edits 10 academic and creative book series while curating the Latinographix and Brown Ink graphic novel series.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Date d'édition: 2026
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367196875
• ISBN 13: 9780367196875
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 372
• Coordonnées du fabricant: BOOKS etc..; cs@booksetc.co.uk; ; BOOKS etc.; Aldershot; Royaume-Uni
• Personne responsable: non disponible