Drawing from range of current scholarship demonstrating that comics are an expressive medium whose moves (structural and aesthetic) may be shared by literature, the visual arts, and film, possessing qualities these other mediums do not, this volume, written by teachers and scholars of comics for instructors, bridges research and pedagogy, providing models of critical readings around a variety of comic works.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Preface
1. Introduction: The Growing Relevance of Comics
Crag Hill
Section 1: Materiality and the Reading of Comics
2. Designing Meaning: A Multimodal Perspective on Comics Reading
Sean P. Connors
3. Multimodal Forms: Examining Text, Image, and Visual Literacy in Daniel Handler's Why We Broke Up and Markus Zusak's The Book Thief
Amy Bright
Section 2: Comics and Bodies
4. Illustrating Youth: A Critical Examination of the Artful Depictions of
Adolescent Characters in Comics
Mark A. Lewis
5. Just Like Us? LGBTQ Characters in Mainstream Comics
A. Scott Henderson
Section 3: Comics and the Mind
6. Telling the Untellable: Comics and Language of Mental Illness
Sarah Thaller
7. Christian Forgiveness in Gene Luen Yang's Animal Crackers and Eternal Smile: A Thematic Analysis
Jake Stratman
Section 4: Comics and Contemporary Society
8. Poverty Lines: Visual Depictions of Poverty and Social Class Realities in Comics
Fred Johnson, Whitworth University, and Janine J. Darragh, University of Idaho
9. Can Superhero Comics Defeat Racism?: Black Superheroes "Torn between Sci-Fi Fantasy and Cultural Reality"
P.L. Thomas
10. Teaching Native American Comics with Post-Colonial Theory
Lisa Schade Eckert
Section 5: Endpoints
11. Crag Hill
List of Contributors
Additional resources were compiled by Shaina Thomas.
