The Greatest Comic Book of All Time

Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books
2016. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-1-137-56196-1
Verlag: Palgrave MacMillan Us

Buch, Englisch, 156 Seiten, Format (B × H): 154 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3241 g

Reihe: Palgrave Studies in Comics and Graphic Novels

This book offers a series of short, provocative essays about value and reputation in the world of American comic books. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu’s analyses of fields of cultural production, The Greatest Comic Book of All Time explores why works have the reputations that they do and what it might take to re-structure the comics world along different principles.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Beaty, Bart

Woo, Benjamin

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Gattungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1 What If The Greatest Comic Book of All Time Were….- 2 Maus by Art Spiegelman?.- 3 A Short Story by Robert Crumb?.- 4 A Superhero Story by Jack Kirby?.- 5 Written by Alan Moore?.- 6 The Cage by Martin Vaughn-James.- 7 By Rob Liefeld?.- 8 An Archie Comic?.- 9 Not by a White Man?.- 10 Persepolis by Marjane Satrapi?.- 11 Dave Sim’s Cerebus?.- 12 Hicksville by Dylan Horrocks?.

Über Autor(innen)

Bart Beaty is Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. Among other works, he is the author of Twelve-Cent Archie, Comics Versus Art, and Unpopular Culture.
Benjamin Woo is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, Canada. His research examines contemporary geek media cultures, with a particular focus on the producers, institutions, and audiences oriented to comics and graphic novels.