Studying Comics and Graphic Novels.

Intro -- Studying Comics and Graphic Novels -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: How to Use This Book -- What This Book Holds -- Working Definitions -- Recommended Reading -- References -- 1 What's in a Page: Close-Reading Comics -- Cognitive Processes and Critical Terms -- Navigating the Comics Page -- Entering the Storyworld and Meeting its Participants -- Comics Analysis - A Basic Checklist -- Note -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 2 The Way Comics Tell it: Narration and Narrators1 -- Showing and Telling -- Story, Discourse, and Plot -- The Narrator -- Narration, Focalization, and Point of View -- Narrative as Meaning-Making -- Graphic Narrative - A Basic Checklist -- Note -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 3 Narrating Minds and Bodies: Autobiographical Comics -- Style and Subjectivity -- Autographic Agents -- Embodiment -- Self-Reflexivity -- Time, Story, and History -- Alternative Agendas and Authenticity -- Note -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 4 Novels and Graphic Novels: Adaptations -- Transporting Stories -- Media Affordances and Adaptation Strategies -- Fidelity in Adaptation -- Literary Complexity -- The Page Revisited -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 5 Comics and Their History -- The Beginnings of Comics History -- Precursors in Emergent Mass Culture -- Newspaper Comics (1900s-1930s) -- The Comic Book (1930-54) -- Comics Censorship (1954) -- Comics as Popular Culture -- Breaking the Code 1: Pop Art and Underground Comix -- Breaking the Code 2: The British Invasion -- Notes -- Recommended Reading -- References -- Comics Discussed -- 6 The Study and Criticism of Comics -- Resources for Studying Comics -- Access to Comics Texts -- Critical Work on Comics -- Critical Approaches to Comics -- Comics Semiotics.

Comics Narratology -- Cognitive Approaches to Comics -- Historical and Auteurist Approaches -- Cultural Studies and Gender Studies -- Psychoanalysis -- Recommended Reading -- References -- How to Write Your Essay on Comics -- The Crime Scene -- The Witnesses -- Making Your Case -- End Credits -- Recommended Reading -- Conclusion -- Comics as Literature -- References -- Appendix: More Comics and Graphic Novels to Read -- Glossary -- Index.

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