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Comics and the senses : a multisensory approach to comics and graphic novels.
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ISBN: 9780415713979 9781315883052 9781134684557 9781134684625 9781138548398 1138548391 0415713978 Year: 2014 Volume: 57 Publisher: New York Routledge

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Attempts to define what comics are and explain how they work have not always been successful because they are premised upon the idea that comic strips, comic books and graphic novels are inherently and almost exclusively visual. This book challenges that premise, and asserts that comics is not just a visual medium. The book outlines the multisensory aspects of comics: the visual, audible, tactile, olfactory and gustatory elements of the medium. It rejects a synaesthetic approach (by which all the senses are engaged through visual stimuli) and instead argues for a truly multisensory model by which the direct stimulation of the reader’s physical senses can be understood. A wide range of examples demonstrates how multisensory communication systems work in both commercial and more experimental contexts. The book concludes with a case study that looks at the works of Alan Moore and indicates areas of interest that multisensory analysis can draw out, but which are overlooked by more conventional approaches.


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Representing multiculturalism in comics and graphic novels
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ISBN: 9781138025158 1138025151 1315775344 9781315775340 1317687167 9781317687146 9781317687153 9781138548947 1138548944 Year: 2014 Publisher: London ; New York : Routledge,

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Multiculturalism, and its representation, has long presented challenges for the medium of comics. This book presents a wide ranging survey of the ways in which comics have dealt with the diversity of creators and characters and the (lack of) visibility for characters who don’t conform to particular cultural stereotypes. Contributors engage with ethnicity and other cultural forms from Israel, Romania, North America, South Africa, Germany, Spain, U.S. Latino and Canada and consider the ways in which comics are able to represent multiculturalism through a focus on the formal elements of the medium. Discussion themes include education, countercultures, monstrosity, the quotidian, the notion of the ‘other," anthropomorphism, and colonialism. Taking a truly international perspective, the book brings into dialogue a broad range of comics traditions.


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Contexts of violence in comics
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ISBN: 9781138484504 1138484504 9781351051866 1351051865 9781351051842 1351051849 9781351051859 1351051857 9781351051835 1351051830 9781032177618 1032177616 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts. Contexts of Violence in Comics asks the reader to consider the ways in which violence and its representations may be enabled or restricted by the contexts in which they take place. It analyzes how structures and organising principles, be they cultural, historical, legal, political or spatial, might encourage, demand or prevent violence. It deals with the issue of scale: violence in the context of war versus violence in the context of an individual murder, and provides insights into the context of war and peace, ethnic and identity-based violence, as well as examining issues of justice and memory.This will be a key text and essential reference for scholars and students at all levels in Comics Studies, and Cultural and Media Studies more generally.


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Representing acts of violence in comics
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ISBN: 1138484539 9781138484535 Year: 2020 Publisher: New York, NY : Routledge,

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This book is part of a nuanced two-volume examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts.Representing Acts of Violence in Comics raises questions about depiction and the act of showing violence, and discusses the ways in which individual moments of violence develop, and are both represented and embodied in comics and graphic novels. Contributors consider the impact of gendered and sexual violence, and examine the ways in which violent acts can be rendered palatable (for example through humour) but also how comics can represent trauma and long lasting repercussions for both perpetrators and victims.This will be a key text and essential reference for scholars and students at all levels in Comics Studies, and Cultural and Media Studies more generally.


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Representing acts of violence in comics
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ISBN: 1032177551 9781032177557 Year: 2021 Publisher: London: Routledge,

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