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  • Fantasy Media in the Classroom Fantasy Media in the Classroom
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    Fantasy Media in the Classroom

    A common misconception is that professors who use popular culture and fantasy in the classroom have abandoned the classics, yet in a variety of contexts--high school, college freshman composition,...
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  • The Silver Age of Comics The Silver Age of Comics
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    The Silver Age of Comics

    WILLIAM SCHOELL is the author of many books on pop culture, film and the performing arts, as well as biographies. His film and pop culture books include Comic Book Heroes of the Screen; The...
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  • Comics of R. Crumb Comics of R. Crumb
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    Comics of R. Crumb

    Contributions by José Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S...
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  • Supervillain Reader Supervillain Reader
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    Supervillain Reader

    Contributions by Jerold J. Abrams, José Alaniz, John Carey, Maurice Charney, Peter Coogan, Joe Cruz, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham, Stefan Danter, Adam Davidson-Harden, Randy Duncan, Stephen Graham...
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  • Comics of Alison Bechdel Comics of Alison Bechdel
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    Comics of Alison Bechdel

    Contributions by Michelle Ann Abate, Leah Anderst, Alissa S. Bourbonnais, Tyler Bradway, Natalja Chestopalova, Margaret Galvan, Judith Kegan Gardiner, Katie Hogan, Jonathan M. Hollister, Yetta...
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  • Panel to the Screen Panel to the Screen
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    Panel to the Screen

    Over the past forty years, American film has entered into a formal interaction with the comic book. Such comic book adaptations as Sin City, 300, and Scott Pilgrim vs. the...

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  • British Superhero British Superhero
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    British Superhero

    Chris Murray reveals the largely unknown and rather surprising history of the British superhero. It is often thought that Britain did not have its own superheroes, yet Murray demonstrates that there...
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  • Comics of Joe Sacco Comics of Joe Sacco
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    Comics of Joe Sacco

    Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Lan Dong, Ann D�Orazio, Kevin C. Dunn, Alexander Dunst, Jared Gardner, Edward C. Holland, Isabel Macdonald, Brigid Maher, Ben Owen, Rebecca Scherr, Maureen Shay,...
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  • Superman in Myth and Folklore Superman in Myth and Folklore
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    Superman in Myth and Folklore

    Superman rose from popular culture �comic books, newspaper strips, radio, television, novels, and movies� but people have so embraced the character that he has now becomepart of folklore. This...
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  • Reading Lessons in Seeing Reading Lessons in Seeing
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    Reading Lessons in Seeing

    Literary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic novels to illustrate that in form and function they inform readers on how they ought to be read. His arguments result in an innovative analysis...

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  • Image coming soon
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    Jim Shooter

    "I think that if you're an editor, and you do what's right, you occasionally have to say 'no' to people. To the good people, the professionals, that's fine. But the people who are 'hacks, ' they...
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  • Griechische Mythologie; Volume 1 Griechische Mythologie; Volume 1
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    Griechische Mythologie; Volume 1

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...
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  • America Tenants America Tenants
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    America Tenants

    At the end of the 1990s, on both sides of the United States, several gangs associated with Taiwan and Japan launched a fierce tracking battle in secret to obtain two treasure maps of cultural relics...
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  • Comics and Language Comics and Language
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    Comics and Language

    A new theoretical framework that critiques many of the assumptions of comics studiesIt has become an axiom in comic studies that "comics is a language, not a genre." But what exactly does that mean,...
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  • Monstrous Imaginaries Monstrous Imaginaries
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    Monstrous Imaginaries

    Monsters seem inevitably linked to humans and not always as mere opposites. Maaheen Ahmed examines good monsters in comics to show how Romantic themes from the eighteenth and the nineteenth centuries...
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  • Comics as Philosophy Comics as Philosophy
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    Comics as Philosophy

    Through the combination of text and images, comic books offer a unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this...
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  • Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937 Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937
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    Lynd Ward's Wordless Novels, 1929-1937

    This book offers the first multidisciplinary analysis of the "wordless novels" of American woodcut artist and illustrator Lynd Ward (1905-1985), who has been enormously influential in the development...
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  • The World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976 The World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976
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    The World of Science Fiction, 1926-1976

    This book, first published in 1980, is a guide to the major forces in the subculture of science fiction. It analyses the history of the field and the related developments, for instance the Bomb, that...
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  • Dave Sim Dave Sim
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    Dave Sim

    In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004...
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  • Drawn and Dangerous Drawn and Dangerous
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    Drawn and Dangerous

    A record of turbulent times in which the comics became the trusted platform to attack the status quo in ItalyExploring an overlooked era of Italian history roiled by domestic terrorism, political...
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  • La Civilisation Japonaise La Civilisation Japonaise
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    La Civilisation Japonaise

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...
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  • Serials to Graphic Novels Serials to Graphic Novels
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    Serials to Graphic Novels

    "A valuable and comprehensive survey of an enormous subject."--Paul Goldman, author of Reading Victorian Illustration, 1855-1875: Spoils of the Lumber Room"A marvelous overview of how and why...
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  • Holy Superheroes! Holy Superheroes!
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    Holy Superheroes!

    Spider-Man. Batman. The X-Men. The Fantastic Four. Comic books and the characters they have spawned have become twenty-first-century mythology. Greg Garrett helps us see the profound depth that can...
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  • Dragon Ball Culture Volume 1 Dragon Ball Culture Volume 1
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    Dragon Ball Culture Volume 1

    See Dragon Ball with new eyes. This book is your cultural tour guide to Dragon Ball, the world’s most recognized anime and manga series.Over 12 years in development, Dragon Ball Culture is a 7 Volume...
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  • Oh My God They Printed That!? Oh My God They Printed That!?
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    Oh My God They Printed That!?

    No history of comics could fairly rank the milestones without first acknowledging the millstones. Who knew that iconic artists such as Jack Kirby, Bill Ward, and writer Otto Binder once conjured...
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  • Retcon Game Retcon Game
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    Retcon Game

    The superhero Wolverine time travels and changes storylines. On Torchwood, there's a pill popped to alter the past. The narrative technique of retroactive continuity seems rife lately, given all the...
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  • Image coming soon
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    Pulp Fascism

    Jonathan Bowden was a paradox: on the one hand, he was an avowed elitist and aesthetic modernist, yet on the other hand, he relished such forms of popular entertainment as comics, graphic novels,...
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  • More Critical Approaches to Comics More Critical Approaches to Comics
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    More Critical Approaches to Comics

    In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic...
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  • Pervasive Animation Pervasive Animation
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    Pervasive Animation

    This new addition to the AFI Film Readers series brings together original scholarship on animation in contemporary moving image culture, from classic experimental and independent shorts to digital...
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  • The Forensic Comicologist The Forensic Comicologist
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    The Forensic Comicologist

    A childhood comic book fan turned comic book retailer, the author soon discovered the prevalence of scams in the world of comics collecting. This book is his tutorial on how to collect wisely and...
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  • Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia
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    Captain Marvel and the Art of Nostalgia

    Billy Batson discovers a secret in a forgotten subway tunnel. There the young man meets a wizard who offers a precious gift: a magic word that will transform the newsboy into a hero. When Billy says,...
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  • Japan 1853-1864 Japan 1853-1864
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    Japan 1853-1864

    This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of...
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  • Class, Please Open Your Comics Class, Please Open Your Comics
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    Class, Please Open Your Comics

    Comics and sequential art are increasingly in use in college classrooms. Multimodal, multimedia and often collaborative, the graphic narrative format has entered all kinds of subject areas and its...
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  • Dragon Ball Culture Volume 6 Dragon Ball Culture Volume 6
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    Dragon Ball Culture Volume 6

    Goku Meets God!In Dragon Ball Culture Volume 6 our hero Goku ascends to heaven, trains with God, and battles the reincarnated Demon King!Discover the amazing truth behind your favorite characters,...
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  • Bending Steel Bending Steel
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    Bending Steel

    How superheroes grappled with industrialization, modernization, and capitalism"Faster than a speeding bullet. More powerful than a locomotive. Able to leap tall buildings in a single bound . . . It's...
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  • Howard Chaykin Howard Chaykin
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    Howard Chaykin

    One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics...
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  • Drawing France Drawing France
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    Drawing France

    A sophisticated account of the evolving role of comics in recent French historyIn France, Belgium, and other Francophone countries, comic strips--called bande dessinée or "BD" in French-- have long...
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  • Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War
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    Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War

    Conflict and trauma remain among the most prevalent themes in film and literature. Comics has never avoided such narratives, and comics artists are writing them in ways that are both different from...
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  • Comics of Herge Comics of Herge
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    Comics of Herge

    As the creator of Tintin, Herge (1907-1983) remains one of the most important and influential figures in the history of comics. When Herge, born Georges Prosper Remi in Belgium, emerged from the...
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  • Comics of Charles Schulz Comics of Charles Schulz
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    Comics of Charles Schulz

    With contributions by:Leonie Brialey, MJ Clarke, Roy T. Cook, Joseph J. Darowski, Ian Gordon, Gene Kannenberg Jr., Christopher P. Lehman, Anne C. McCarthy, Ben Owen, Lara Saguisag, Ben Saunders,...
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