Keywords for comics studies
By: edited by Ramzi Fawaz, Shelley Streeby, and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley
Series: Keywords; Keywords series
Publisher: New York University Press
Published: 2021
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781479862702
Subjects: Comic books, strips; Encyclopedias; Terminology; History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM; Comics & Graphic Novels
Description: "Across more than fifty essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art, and identifies new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first century. In an original twist on the NYU Keywords mission, the terms in this volume combine attention to the unique aesthetic practices of a distinct medium, comics, with some of the most fundamental concepts of the humanities broadly. Readers will see how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields-including media and film studies, queer and feminist theory, and critical race and transgender studies among others-take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics and more. To do so, Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of original and inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art, but traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative or aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms like trans*, disability, universe, and fantasy; genre terms, like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen and Love and Rockets. Written as much for students and lay readers as professors and experts in the field, Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas"--

Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studiesAcross more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen, and Love and Rockets. This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Ramzi Fawaz, Shelley Streeby, and Deborah Elizabeth Whaley; title: 1. Adaptation: Matt Yockey; title: 2. Alternative: Charles Hatfield; title: 3. Archie: Bart Beaty; title: 4. Archive: Margaret Galvan; title: 5. Border: Cathy Schlund-Vials; title: 6. Caricature: Rebecca Wanzo; title: 7. Cartoon: Michael Mark Cohen; title: 8. Censorship: Amy Kiste Nyberg; title: 9. Circulation: Benjamin Woo; title: 10. Cognition: Michael Chaney and Sara Biggs Chaney; title: 11. Comic Book: Jared Gardner; title: 12. Comic Strip: Jessica Quick Stark; title: 13. Comix: Nicholas Sammond; title: 14. Cosplay: Ellen Kirkpatrick; title: 15. Creator: Susan Kirtley; title: 16. Disability: José Alaniz; title: 17. Diversity: Frederick Luis Aldama; title: 18. Documentary: Christopher Spaide; title: 19. EC Comics: Nicholas Yanes; title: 20. Fandom: Aaron Kashtan; title: 21. Fantasy: Darieck Scott; title: 22. Feminism: Yetta Howard; title: 23. Form: Scott Bukatman; title: 24. Funnies: Joshua Abraham Kopin; title: 25. Gender: Ian Blechschmidt; title: 26. Genre: Shelley Streeby; title: 27. Graphic Novel: Tahneer Oksman; title: 28. Gutter: Christopher Pizzino; title: 29. Industry: Gregory Steirer; title: 30. Ink: Stacey Robinson; title: 31. Latinx: Isabel Millán; title: 32. Love and Rockets: Enrique García; title: 33. Lowbrow: Sean Guynes; title: 34. Manga: Adam L. Kern; title: 35. Memoir: Joo Ok Kim; title: 36. Nostalgia: Blair Davis; title: 37. Panel: Matt Silady; title: 38. Pornography: Justin Hall; title: 39. Print: Carol L. Tilley; title: 40. Queer: Ramzi Fawaz, with Darieck Scott; title: 41. Race: Jonathan W. Gray; title: 42. Reader: Frank Bramlett; title: 43. Sequence: Barbara Postema; title: 44. Seriality: Osvaldo Oyola; title: 45. Southern: Brannon Costello; title: 46. Speculation: andré carrington; title: 47. Superhero: Benjamin Saunders; title: 48. Superman: Ian Gordon; title: 49. Trans-/*: Cáel M. Keegan; title: 50. Universe: Anthony Michael D'Agostino; title: 51. Watchmen: Andrew Hoberek; title: 52. Webcomics: Leah Misemer; title: 53. Wonder Woman: Phil Jimenez; title: 54. X-Men: Alexandro Segade; title: 55. Zine: Mimi Thi Nguyen.