{"product_id":"keywords-for-comics-studies-9781479831968","title":"Keywords for Comics Studies","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross more than fifty original essays, \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eInk\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eCreator\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eBorder\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePanel\u003c\/i\u003e; conceptual terms such as \u003ci\u003eTrans*\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDisability\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUniverse\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eFantasy\u003c\/i\u003e; genre terms like \u003ci\u003eZine\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003ePornography\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSuperhero\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eManga\u003c\/i\u003e; and canonical terms like \u003ci\u003eX-Men\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eArchie\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eWatchmen\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eLove and Rockets\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThis 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. \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eRamzi Fawaz (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e​​\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cb\u003eRamzi Fawaz\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in the Department of English at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics\u003c\/i\u003e and co-editor of \u003ci\u003eKeywords for Comics Studies\u003c\/i\u003e. With Darieck Scott, he co-edited the special issue of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, \"Queer About Comics,\" which won the 2019 best special issue award from the Council of Editors of Learned Journals. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eDeborah Whaley (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eDeborah Elizabeth Whaley\u003c\/b\u003e 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 \u003ci\u003eBlack Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eShelley Streeby (Editor) \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003eShelley Streeby\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor in the Departments of Ethnic Studies and Literature at the University of California, San Diego, and author of \u003ci\u003eImagining the Future of Climate Change: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50378807083282,"sku":"9781479831968","price":32.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_2f518a01-0068-4de7-9a17-ab564bddc83a.jpg?v=1728652679","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/keywords-for-comics-studies-9781479831968","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}