{"product_id":"critical-directions-in-comics-studies-9781496829009","title":"Critical Directions in Comics Studies","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eContributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green, Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola Streeten, and Lydia Wysocki\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRecent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root--assumptions around the particular methods used to approach the comics form, the ways we should read comics, how its 'system' works, and the disciplinary relationships that surround this evolving area of study. But other perspectives have also begun to flourish. These approaches question the reliance on structural linguistics and the tools of English and cultural studies in the examination and understanding of comics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and political contexts of comics' creation\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52195296772439,"sku":"9781496829009","price":26.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781496829009.jpg?v=1763647074","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/critical-directions-in-comics-studies-9781496829009","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}