Screen LibraryVisions of the future in comics : international perspectives /
"This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible futures to the page. The contributors investigate portrayals in different stylistic traditions--manga, bande desinées--from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The disparate yet coherent...
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McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers,
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| Publisher Address: | Jefferson, North Carolina : |
| Publication Dates: | [2017] |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
"This collection of new essays explores the creative processes in comics production that bring plausible futures to the page. The contributors investigate portrayals in different stylistic traditions--manga, bande desinées--from a variety of theoretical perspectives. The disparate yet coherent picture that emerges documents the elaborate storylines and complex universes comics creators have been crafting for decades"-- |
| Carrier Form: | viii, 248 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781476668017 1476668019 |
| Index Number: | PN6714 |
| CLC: | J238.2 |
| Call Number: | J238.2/V831 |
| Contents: |
Introduction / Future-formal. Narrative, time travel and Richard McGuire's "Here" / One soul, From hell, and Here : the graphic novel page as time machine / English apocalypses and robot skateboards : Warren Ellis' futures / Where is the future? : an analysis of places and location processes in comics / Hallucinations of present future : futuristic patterns through images in Japanimation works / Future-past and future-present. The future is (ancient) history : Judge Dredd and the futuristic legacy of the classical world / The haunted futures of gothic comics / Dystopian chaos, dystopian order : differing ideological reinterpretations of the masked vigilante in Miller's The dark night returns and Moore and Lloyd's V for vendetta / Tragicomic books : reading Watchmen and Kingdom come as pop apocalyptic / Maxime Miranda in Minimis : the anthropocene in Nausicaä of the valley of the wind / Future-culture. The end is ahora : images of the future in the Mexican comics La blanda patria and 1874 / The future in Swedish avant-garde comics, 2006-2014 / Where comics and movies converge : days of future present / |