Screen LibraryThe Cambridge history of the graphic novel /
This book provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle E...
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Cambridge University Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Cambridge, United Kingdom : |
| Publication Dates: | 2018. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: |
This book provides the complete history of the graphic novel from its origins in the nineteenth century to its rise and startling success in the twentieth and twenty-first century. It includes original discussion on the current state of the graphic novel and analyzes how American, European, Middle Eastern, and Japanese renditions have shaped the field. Thirty-five leading scholars and historians unpack both forgotten trajectories as well as the famous key episodes, and explain how comics transitioned from being marketed as children's entertainment. Essays address the masters of the form, including Art Spiegelman, Alan Moore, and Marjane Satrapi, and reflect on their publishing history as well as their social and political effects. This ambitious history offers an extensive, detailed and expansive scholarly account of the graphic novel, and will be a key resource for scholars and students. |
| Carrier Form: | xii, 677 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 609-657) and index. |
| ISBN: |
9781107171411 1107171415 |
| Index Number: | PN6710 |
| CLC: | J238.205 |
| Call Number: | J238.205/C178 |
| Contents: |
The origins of adult graphic narratives : graphic literature and the novel, from Laurence Sterne to Gustave Doré (1760-1851) / Long-length serials in the golden age of comic strips : production and reception / Long-length wordless books : Frans Masereel, Milt Gross, Lynd Ward, and beyond / The postwar "drawn novel" / Harvey Kurtzman and the influence of Mad magazine / When realism met romance : the negative zone of Marvel's silver age / Beat-era literature and the graphic novel / Henry Darger, comics, and the graphic novel : contexts and appropriations / Underground comix and the invention of autobiography, history, and reportage / Jules Feiffer, creative and intellectual ally of the graphic novel (and of other critical/editorial voices) / Will Eisner and the making of A Contract with God / Art Spiegelman's autobiographical practice from Maus to MetaMaus / Alan Moore : the making of a graphic novelist / No future : punk and the underground graphic novel / European literary and genre fiction : the (à suivre) magazine and the "adventure" and "science fiction" traditions (Pratt, Tardi, Moebius) / "A word to you feminist women" : the parallel legacies of feminism and underground comics / The secret origins of LGBTQ graphic novels / US creators of color and the postunderground graphic narrative renaissance / The influence of manga on the graphic novel / Sandman, the ephemeral, and the permanent / "To elevate every experience into something artistic and exciting" : Daniel Clowes' Ghost World / From an informed fan culture to an academic field / Joe Sacco, graphic novelist as political journalist / The discovery of Marjane Satrapi and the translation of works from and about the Middle East / Chris Oliveros, Drawn and Quarterly, and the expanded definition of the graphic novel / The Jewish graphic novel / Crime genre fiction in the graphic novel / Genre fiction in the graphic novel : the case of science fiction / The superhero graphic novel / Reinvention of the form : Chris Ware and experimentalism after Raw / Convergence cultures : modern and contemporary poetry and the graphic novel / Cinema's discovery of the graphic novel : mainstream and independent adaptation / The novel and the graphic novel / E-graphic novels / World literature / |