Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics - Couverture rigide

Hoberek, Andrew

 
9780813563329: Considering Watchmen: Poetics, Property, Politics
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0813563321 ISBN 13 : 9780813563329
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2014

Synopsis

Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's Watchmen has been widely hailed as a landmark in the development of the graphic novel. It was not only aesthetically groundbreaking but also anticipated future developments in politics, literature, and intellectual property. Demonstrating a keen eye for historical detail, Considering Watchmen gives readers a new appreciation of just how radical Moore and Gibbons's blend of gritty realism and formal experimentation was back in 1986. The book also considers Watchmen's place in the history of the comics industry, reading the graphic novel's playful critique of superhero marketing alongside Alan Moore's public statements about the rights to the franchise. Andrew Hoberek examines how Moore and Gibbons engaged with the emerging discourses of neoconservatism and neoliberal capitalism, ideologies that have only become more prominent in subsequent years. Watchmen's influences on the superhero comic and graphic novel are undeniable, but Hoberek reveals how it has also had profound effects on literature as a whole. He suggests that Watchmen not only proved that superhero comics could rise to the status of literature-it also helped to inspire a generation of writers who are redefining the boundaries of the literary, from Jonathan Lethem to Junot Díaz. Hoberek delivers insight and analysis worthy of satisfying serious readers of the genre while shedding new light on Watchmen as both an artistic accomplishment and a book of ideas.

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À propos de l?auteur

ANDREW HOBEREK is an associate professor of English at the University of Missouri.

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Éditeur
Rutgers University Press
Date d'édition
2014
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0813563321
ISBN 13 
9780813563329
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
224
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0813563313 ISBN 13 :  9780813563312
Editeur : Rutgers University Press, 2014
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