TY - GEN T1 - Keywords for comics studies T2 - Keywords series. A2 - Fawaz, Ramzi A2 - Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth A2 - Streeby, Shelley, 1963- LA - English PP - New York PB - New York University Press YR - 2021 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1245669519 AB - Across more than fifty essays, the contributors to this book provide a rich, interdisciplinary vocabulary for comics and sequential art, and identify new avenues of research into one of the most popular and diverse visual media of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. In an original twist on the NYU Keywords mission, the terms in this volume combine attention to the unique aesthetic practices of a distinct medium, comics, with some of the most fundamental concepts of the humanities broadly. Readers will see how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields - including media and film studies, queer and feminist theory, and critical race and transgender studies, among others - take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. To do so, this book presents an array of original and inventive analyses of terms central to the study of comics and sequential art, but traditionally siloed in distinct lexicons: these include creative or aesthetic terms like ink, creator, border, and panel; conceptual terms like trans*, disability, universe, and fantasy; genre terms, like zine, pornography, superhero, and manga; and canonical terms like X-Men, Archie, Watchmen and Love and Rockets. Written as much for students and lay readers as for professors and experts in the field, this book revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas. -- AB - Introduces key terms, research traditions, debates, and histories, and offers a sense of the new frontiers emerging in the field of comics studiesAcross 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, Watchmen, and Love and Rockets. This volume ties each specific comic studies keyword to the larger context of the term within the humanities. Essays demonstrate how scholars, cultural critics, and comics artists from a range of fields take up sequential art as both an object of analysis and a medium for developing new theories about embodiment, identity, literacy, audience reception, genre, cultural politics, and more. Keywords for Comics Studies revivifies the fantasy and magic of reading comics in its kaleidoscopic view of the field's most compelling and imaginative ideas. OP - 274 CN - PN6707 .K49 2021eb SN - 1479862703 SN - 9781479862702 SN - 9781479816682 KW - Comic books, strips, etc. : Encyclopedias. KW - Comic books, strips, etc. : Terminology. KW - Comic books, strips, etc. : History and criticism. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : Comics & Graphic Novels. KW - Comic books, strips, etc. KW - Encyclopedia KW - encyclopedias. KW - Criticism, interpretation, etc. KW - Encyclopedias KW - Terminology KW - Encyclopedias. KW - Electronic books. KW - Encyclopédies. ER -