ABSTRACT
In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics.
Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. Contributors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including disability studies, parasocial relationships, scientific humanities, queer theory, linguistics, critical geography, philosophical aesthetics, historiography, and much more.
As a companion to the acclaimed Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods, this second volume features 19 fresh perspectives and serves as a stand-alone textbook in its own right. More Critical Approaches to Comics is a compelling classroom or research text for students and scholars interested in Comics Studies, Critical Theory, the Humanities, and beyond.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|2 pages
Viewpoint
chapter 2|17 pages
Postcolonial Theory
chapter 3|11 pages
Critical Race Theory
chapter 4|13 pages
Queer Theory
part II|2 pages
Expression
chapter 9|15 pages
Psychoanalytic Criticism
chapter 13|14 pages
Burkean Dramatistic Analysis
part III|2 pages
Relationships