{"product_id":"critical-directions-in-comics-studies-hardcover","title":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eThomas Giddens\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola Streeten, and Lydia Wysocki \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Recent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root--assumptions around the particular methods used to approach the comics form, the ways we should read comics, how its \"system\" works, and the disciplinary relationships that surround this evolving area of study. But other perspectives have also begun to flourish. These approaches question the reliance on structural linguistics and the tools of English and cultural studies in the examination and understanding of comics. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics' creation and reception. Through this lens, influenced by poststructuralist theories, contributors explore and elaborate other possibilities for working with comics as a critical resource, consolidating the emergence of these alternative modes of engagement in a single text. This opens comics studies to a wider array of resources, perspectives, and modes of engagement. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e Included in this volume are essays on a range of comics and illustrations as well as considerations of such popular comics as\u003ci\u003e Deadpool\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eDaredevil\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003eV for Vendetta\u003c\/i\u003e, and analyses of comics production, medical illustrations, and original comics. Some contributions even unfold in the form of comics panels.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThomas Giddens\u003c\/b\u003e is lecturer in law at the University of Dundee, Scotland. He founded the Graphic Justice Research Alliance and is author of \u003ci\u003eOn Comics and Legal Aesthetics: Multimodality and the Haunted Mask of Knowing\u003c\/i\u003e, editor of \u003ci\u003eGraphic Justice: Intersections of Comics and Law\u003c\/i\u003e, and coeditor of \u003ci\u003eLaw and Justice in Japanese Popular Culture: From Crime Fighting Robots to Duelling Pocket Monsters. \u003c\/i\u003eHis research focuses on critical, comics, and cultural legal studies, with particular interests in aesthetics, epistemology, and visuality.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 332\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.75 x 9 x 6 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 25, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42729237217343,"sku":"9781496828996","price":237.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0105\/8226\/1823\/files\/bb9682220f89922dd85d50ade7602416.webp?v=1765121470","url":"https:\/\/dhlswag.com\/products\/critical-directions-in-comics-studies-hardcover","provider":"BBB","version":"1.0","type":"link"}