作者:
Randy Duncan
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Matthew J. Smith
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Paul Levitz 出版社: Bloomsbury Academic 副标题: History, Form, and Culture 出版年: 2015-2-12 页数: 464 定价: $31.96 装帧: Paperback ISBN: 9781472535702
Fully revised and updated for its second edition, The Power of Comics remains the most authoritative introduction to comic books and graphic novels – the history of the medium, its many forms and manifestations and their place in contemporary culture.
The new edition includes:
An expanded historical section bringing the story of comic books up to the present and covering the ri...
Fully revised and updated for its second edition, The Power of Comics remains the most authoritative introduction to comic books and graphic novels – the history of the medium, its many forms and manifestations and their place in contemporary culture.
The new edition includes:
An expanded historical section bringing the story of comic books up to the present and covering the rise of the graphic novel and the advent of digital comics
A new chapter on the memoir genre and a thoroughly revised chapter on the superhero genre
A revised chapter – “Exploring Meanings in Comic Book Texts” – introduces students to the theoretical tools they need to read comics critically
Study objectives, discussion points, activities and annotated further reading guides in each chapter, helping students master the topics covered
Illustrated throughout, with an extensive glossary of key terms, The Power of Comics also includes further updated resources available online at www.powerofcomics.com, including additional essays, weblinks and sample syllabi.
作者简介
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Randy Duncan is Professor of Communication at Henderson State University, USA, and co-founder the Comic Arts Conference, the nation's first annual academic conference devoted solely to the study of comics. He is also the co-editor of Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman.
Dr. Matthew J. Smith is professor of Communication at Wittenberg Universit...
Randy Duncan is Professor of Communication at Henderson State University, USA, and co-founder the Comic Arts Conference, the nation's first annual academic conference devoted solely to the study of comics. He is also the co-editor of Icons of the American Comic Book: From Captain America to Wonder Woman.
Dr. Matthew J. Smith is professor of Communication at Wittenberg University where he regularly teaches Comics Studies courses.
Paul Levitz is a former President and Publisher of DC Comics and teaches a course in the American Graphic Novel at Columbia University, USA. He has written for many of DC's major comic books series, including Superman and Batman, and is the only writer to have appeared on the New York Times Graphic Books Best Seller list for both his fiction and non-fiction work.
原文摘录
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Comic book writer Nat Gertler has identified some broad trends in the evolution of superhero stories over the decades:
1. First Generation: Heroes strive to stop badness As Coogan points out, “in a narrative sense, villains are proactive and heroes are reactive. The villain’s machinations drive the plot. The hero reacts to the villain’s threat” .
2. Second Generation: Why the heroes strive to stop badness The soul-searching Marvel Comics heroes of the 1960s were some of the first to wrestle with the question of why someone would choose to put on a costume and battle evil.
3. Third Generation: The results of the heroes striving to stop badness Works such as Marvels, Kurt Busiek’s Astro City, and Gertler’s own The Factor speculate about how our world would react to the presence of superheroe... (查看原文)
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