1st Edition
Reading Comics Language, Culture, and the Concept of the Superhero in Comic Books
By Mila Bongco
Copyright 2000
252 Pages
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Routledge
252 Pages
by
Routledge
238 Pages
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Routledge
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This study explores how the definition of the medium, as well as its language, readership, genre conventions, and marketing and distribution strategies, have kept comic books within the realm of popular culture. Since comics have been studied mostly in relation to mass media and its influence on society, there is a void in the analysis of the critical issues related to comics as a distinct genre... Read more
Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Comics and Cultural Studies: Sites for Struggle; Chapter 2: Responses to Comicbooks and the Concept of the Popular; Chapter 3: On the Language of Comics and the Reading Process; Chapter 4: Superhero Comicbooks; Chapter 5: Factors that Changed Superhero Comicbooks; Chapter 6: Frank Miller's The Dark Knights Returns (1986); Chapter 7: A Glimpse at the Comics Scene after 1986; Index
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Bongco, Mila
