Description
Book SynopsisIntroduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studies
Across more than fifty original essays, Keywords for Comics Studies provides a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art. The essays also identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Keywords for Comics Studies presents an array of inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art that are traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative and aesthetic terms like Ink, Creator, Border, and Panel; conceptual terms such as Trans*, Disability, Universe, and Fantasy; genre terms like Zine, Pornography, Superhero, and Manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie,
Trade Review
Keywords for Comics Studies is the book this field needs right now, featuring its heavy hitters explaining—as well as debating—the complex and conceptual underpinnings of comics today. Savvy, fresh, inclusive, and often brilliant, it’s an essential text. * Hillary Chute, author of Why Comics? From Underground to Everywhere *
In this latest entry of the sublime Keywords series from NYU Press, Fawaz, Streeby, and Whaley demonstrate, once again, why they are three of the top scholars working in the Humanities today. This volume is a well-curated, intellectually nimble, collection of wonderfully constructed interdisciplinary entries from a compelling spectrum of creators, educators and theorists. This delightfully accessible book belongs in the collection of anyone truly serious about researching the medium of comics and its associated cultures. * John Jennings, Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of California at Riverside and illustrator of Kindred: A Graphic Novel Adaptation *
