Meskin / Cook The Art of Comics

A Philosophical Approach
1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-4443-5482-9
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 224 Seiten, E-Book

Reihe: New Directions in Aesthetics

The Art of Comics is the first-ever collection of essayspublished in English devoted to the philosophical topics raised bycomics and graphic novels. In an area of growing philosophicalinterest, this volume constitutes a great leap forward in thedevelopment of this fast expanding field, and makes a powerfulcontribution to the philosophy of art.
* The first-ever anthology to address the philosophical issuesraised by the art of comics
* Provides an extensive and thorough introduction to the field,and to comics more generally
* Responds to the increasing philosophical interest in comicart
* Includes a preface by the renowned comics author WarrenEllis
* Many of the chapters are illustrated, and the book carries astunning cover by the rising young comics star David Heatley

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meskin, Aaron

Cook, Roy T.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Ellis, Warren

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Editors' Acknowledgments vii
List of Figures viii
Notes on Contributors ix
Foreword xii
Warren Ellis
The Art and Philosophy of Comics: An Introductionxiv
Aaron Meskin and Roy T. Cook
Part One: The Nature and Kinds of Comics 1
1 Redefining Comics 3
John Holbo
2 The Ontology of Comics 31
Aaron Meskin
3 Comics and Collective Authorship 47
Christy Mag Uidhir
4 Comics and Genre 68
Catharine Abell
Part Two: Comics and Representation 85
5 Wordy Pictures: Theorizing the Relationship between Image andText in Comics 87
Thomas E. Wartenberg
6 What's So Funny? Comic Content in Depiction 105
Patrick Maynard
7 The Language of Comics 125
Darren Hudson Hick
Part Three: Comics and the Other Arts 145
8 Making Comics into Film 147
Henry John Pratt
9 Why Comics Are Not Films: Metacomics and Medium?]SpecificConventions 165
Roy T. Cook
10 Proust's In Search of Lost Time : The ComicsVersion 188
David Carrier
Index 203

Über Autor(innen)

Aaron Meskin is Associate Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Centre for Aesthetics at the University of Leeds.
Roy T. Cook is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Minnesota - Twin Cities, a Resident Fellow at the Minnesota Center for Philosophy of Science, and an Associate Fellow of the Northern Institute of Philosophy at the University of Aberdeen.