The American Comic Book
Series: Critical insights
Publisher: Salem Press/Grey House Publishing
Published: 2014
Place of publication: Ipswich, MA; Amenia, NY
Format: Hardcover
ISBN-13: 9781619252264
Table of contents: title: About this volume / Joseph Michael Sommers; title: On the American comic book / Joseph Michael Sommers; title: Critical contexts.; title: The American comic book : a brief history / Daniel Clark & Krystal Howard; title: Hiding the forbidden fruit : comics censorship in the United States / Kim Munson; title: US comics, moral capital, and social change : 1954-2014 / Matt Bryant Cheney; title: The rhetorical construction and negotiation of cultural difference in American nonfiction comics / Daniel Lawson; title: Critical readings.; title: Negotiating popular genres in comic books : an impossible mission. Against all odds. Yet, somehow, the chapter is saved! / Joseph Michael Sommers; title: The improbability of assignment : arriving at a golden age of comic books / Joseph Darowski; title: The silver age playbook : minting the modern superhero / Matthew J. Smith; title: Rust and revitalization : the so-called bronze and modern ages of comics / Kyle Eveleth; title: From the mainstream to the margins : independent comics find a voice / Kim Munson; title: From the page to the tablet : digital media and the comic book / Philip Smith; title: Fantasy elsewheres, sutured realities, and the end of camp : comics in contemporary film and television / Owen R. Horton & A.J. Shackelford; title: Comic fandom throughout the ages / Forrest C. Helvie; title: Waiting for Wonder Woman : the problematic history of comic book women and their cinematic doubles / Katherine E. Whaley & Justin Wigard; title: Resources.; title: Additional works in the American comic book genre; title: Bibliography; title: About the editor; title: Contributors