[Comicsstudiessociety] Open access books on comics and cartoons #2 - Worldwide comics

Mon Oct 17 21:31:47 EDT 2022

 I don't believe any of these have been reviewed by IJOCA and we'd be glad
to hear from interested reviewers.
Mike Rhode
mrhode at gmail.com

The Ethics of Affect: Lines and Life in a Tokyo Neighborhood
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Galbraith, Patrick [image: cc] <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1085-4558__;!!KGKeukY!2Agt8dwtJp_OS8taWQHoc9xtBCbCRmtXAo6gEQzYRo1JFYok_sAdQET6_4B50aj-aaptdxk1LZmcLxnIRA8ayOqFEVY$  >
LanguageEnglish
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Based on ongoing fieldwork in the Akihabara neighborhood of Tokyo,
specifically a targeted subproject from 2014 to 2015, this book explores
how and to what effect lines are drawn by producers, players and critics of
bishōjo games. Focusing on interactions with manga/anime-style characters,
these adult computer games often feature explicit sex acts. Noting that the
bishōjo, or “cute girl characters,” in these games can appear quite young,
legal actions have been taken in a number of countries to categorize and
prohibit the content as child abuse material. In response to the risk of
manga/anime images encouraging underage sexualization, lawmakers are moved
to regulate them in the same way as photographs or film; triggered by
images, the line between fiction and reality is erased, or redrawn to
collapse forms together. While Japanese politicians continue to debate a
similar course, sustained engagement with bishōjo game producers, players
and critics sheds light on alternative movement. Manga/anime-style
characters trigger an affective response in interactions with their
creators and users, who draw and negotiate lines between fiction and
reality. Interacting with characters and one another, bishōjo gamers draw
lines between what is fictional and what is “real,” even as the characters
are real in their own right and relations with them are extended beyond
games; some even see the characters as significant others and refer to them
using intimate terms of commitment such as “my wife.” This book argues for
understanding the everyday practice of insisting on lines, or drawing a
line between humans and nonhumans and orienting oneself toward the drawn
lines of the latter, as demonstrating an emergent form of ethics. Occurring
individually and socially in both private and public spaces, the response
to fictional characters not only discourages harming human beings, but also
supports life in more-than-human worlds. For many in contemporary Japan and
beyond, interactions and relations with fictional and real others are
nothing short of lifelines.
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Keywordsethnography; adult computer games; Japanese popular culture;
freedom of expression; ethics
DOI10.16993/bbn
ISBN9789176351567, 9789176351574, 9789176351581, 9789176351598,
9789176351567
Publisher Stockholm University Press
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Publication date and placeStockholm, 2021
ImprintStockholm University Press
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Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America

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Contributor(s)
Scorer, James (editor)
LanguageEnglish
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Comics Beyond the Page in Latin America is a cutting-edge study of the
expanding worlds of Latin American comics. Despite lack of funding and
institutional support, not since the mid-twentieth century have comics in
the region been so dynamic, so diverse and so engaged with pressing social
and cultural issues. Comics are being used as essential tools in debates
about, for example, digital cultures, gender identities and political
disenfranchisement. Rather than analysing the current boom in comics by
focusing just on the printed text, however, this book looks at diverse
manifestations of comics ‘beyond the page’. Contributors explore digital
comics and social media networks; comics as graffiti and stencil art in
public spaces; comics as a tool for teaching architecture or processing
social trauma; and the consumption and publishing of comics as forms of
shaping national, social and political identities. Bringing together
authors from across Latin America and beyond, and covering examples from
Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Peru and Uruguay, the book sets out a
panoramic vision of Latin American comics, whether in terms of scholarly
contribution, geographical diversity or interdisciplinary methodologies.
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KeywordsLatin America; comics; media; culture; representation
DOI10.14324/111.9781787357549
Publisher UCL Press <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/22334__;!!KGKeukY!2Agt8dwtJp_OS8taWQHoc9xtBCbCRmtXAo6gEQzYRo1JFYok_sAdQET6_4B50aj-aaptdxk1LZmcLxnIRA8aL26t30A$  >
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Publication date and placeLondon, 2020
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Posthumanism and the Graphic Novel in Latin America

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Author(s)
King, Edward
Page, Joanna
LanguageEnglish
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Latin America is experiencing a boom in graphic novels that are highly
innovative in their conceptual play and their reworking of the medium.
Inventive artwork and sophisticated scripts have combined to satisfy the
demand of a growing readership, both at home and abroad. Posthumanism and
the Graphic Novel in Latin America, which is the first book-length study of
the topic, argues that the graphic novel is emerging in Latin America as a
uniquely powerful force to explore the nature of twenty-first century
subjectivity. The authors place particular emphasis on the ways in which
humans are bound to their non-human environment, and these ideas are
productively drawn out in relation to posthuman thought and experience. The
book draws together a range of recent graphic novels from Argentina,
Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Uruguay, many of which experiment with questions
of transmediality, the representation of urban space, modes of perception
and cognition, and a new form of ethics for a posthuman world.
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Keywordscomics; latin america; graphic novels; Modernity; Posthuman;
Posthumanism
DOI10.14324/111.9781911576501
ISBN9781911576500
OCN992785369
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Publication date and place2017
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Manhua Modernity

Chinese Culture and the Pictorial Turn
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Author(s)
Crespi, John A.
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>From fashion sketches of Shanghai dandies in the 1920s, to phantasmagoric
imagery of war in the 1930s and 1940s, to panoramic pictures of
anti-American propaganda rallies in the 1950s, the cartoon-style art known
as manhua helped define China’s modern experience. Manhua Modernity offers
a richly illustrated and deeply contextualized analysis of these
illustrations from the lively pages of popular pictorial magazines that
entertained, informed, and mobilized a nation through a half century of
political and cultural transformation. “An innovative reconceptualization
of manhua. John Crespi’s meticulous study shows the many benefits of
interpreting Chinese comics and other illustrations not simply as image
genres but rather as part of a larger print culture institution. A
must-read for anyone interested in modern Chinese visual culture.”
CHRISTOPHER REA, author of The Age of Irreverence: A New History of
Laughter in China “A rich media-centered reading of Chinese comics from the
mid-1920s through the 1950s, Manhua Modernity shifts the emphasis away from
ideological interpretation and demonstrates that the pictorial turn
requires examinations of manhua in its heterogenous, expansive,
spontaneous, and interactive ways of engaging its audience’s varied
experiences of fast-changing everyday life.” YINGJIN ZHANG, author of
Cinema, Space, and Polylocality in a Globalizing China
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KeywordsAsian Studies; Media Studies
DOI10.1525/luminos.97
Publisher University of California Press
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Publication date and placeOakland, California, 2020
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Manga Vision

Cultural and Communicative Perspectives
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Contributor(s)
Pasfield-Neofitou, Sarah (editor)
Sell, Cathy (editor)
CollectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
Number101453
LanguageEnglish
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Manga Vision examines cultural and communicative aspects of Japanese
comics, drawing together scholars from Japan, Australia and Europe working
in areas as diverse as cultural studies, linguistics, education, music,
art, anthropology, and translation, to explore the influence of manga in
Japan and worldwide via translation, OEL manga and fan engagement. This
volume includes a mix of theoretical, methodological, empirical and
professional practice-based chapters, examining manga from both academic
and artistic perspectives. Manga Vision also provides the reader with a
multimedia experience, featuring original artwork by Australian manga
artist Queenie Chan, cosplay photographs, and an online supplement offering
musical compositions inspired by manga, and downloadable manga-related
teaching resources.
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KeywordsLiterature; Manga; Literary Studies; Japanese Culture; Pop Culture;
Linguistics; Cultural Studies; Translation; Cosplay; Anime; Onomatopoeia;
Yaoi
ISBN9781925523041
OCN1035827910
Publisher Monash University Publishing
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Publication date and placeClayton, Victoria, Australia, 2016-06-01
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Drawing on the Victorians: The Palimpsest of Victorian and Neo-Victorian
Graphic Texts
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Contributor(s)
Jones, Anna (editor)
Mitchell, Rebecca (editor)
CollectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
Number102795
LanguageEnglish
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Late 19th-century Britain experienced an explosion of visual print culture
and a simultaneous rise in literacy across social classes. New printing
technologies facilitated quick and cheap dissemination of
images—illustrated books, periodicals, cartoons, comics, and ephemera—to a
mass readership. This Victorian visual turn prefigured the present-day
impact of the Internet on how images are produced and shared, both driving
and reflecting the visual culture of its time. From this starting point,
Drawing on the Victorians explores the relationship between Victorian
graphic texts and today’s steampunk, manga, and other neo-Victorian genres
that emulate and reinterpret their predecessors. Neo-Victorianism is a
flourishing worldwide phenomenon, but one whose relationship with the texts
from which it takes its inspiration remains underexplored.
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KeywordsLiterature; Victorian studies; art history; comics and graphic
novel culture; literary studies; Victorian
ISBN9780821445877
OCN1100537100
Publisher Ohio University Press
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Publication date and place2015-12-15
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Maskierte Helden: Zur Doppelidentität in Pulp-Novels und Superheldencomics
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Author(s)
von Holzen, Aleta-Amirée [image: cc] <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9910-7710__;!!KGKeukY!2Agt8dwtJp_OS8taWQHoc9xtBCbCRmtXAo6gEQzYRo1JFYok_sAdQET6_4B50aj-aaptdxk1LZmcLxnIRA8akCtLIjM$  >
CollectionSwiss National Science Foundation (SNF)
LanguageGerman
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Populäre Heldengestalten wie Zorro, Batman oder Spider-Man vollbringen ihre
Taten in der Öffentlichkeit nur maskiert, verbergen aber in Zivil jeden
Anschein von Heldentum. Mit diesem Geheimnis ermöglichen solche maskierten
Helden in ihren Geschichten die vielfältige Thematisierung von
Identitätsvorstellungen – kommt der Maske doch schon immer die Funktion zu,
Identitätskategorien und -kategorisierungen zu hinterfragen. In den
Spannungsfeldern der Maskerade zwischen Sein und Schein versuchen diese
Figuren seriellen Erzählens immer wieder aufs Neue, die Balance zwischen
Individualität und Konformität zu finden oder zu halten. Was maskierte
Helden ausmacht und wie solche Figuren zwischen Fragen nach dem 'wahren'
Ich und multiplen Selbsten oszilieren, zeigt dieses Buch in einem grossen
zeitlichen Bogen über das gesamte 20. bis ins beginnende 21. Jahrhundert,
in dem auch die Genese des maskierten Helden als Figurentypus
nachgezeichnet wird. Weltbekannte Figuren wie Superman, weniger bekannte
wie Daredevil, die Thunderbolts oder The Shadow sowie eine Vielzahl fast
vergessener Helden aus den US-amerikanischen Pulp-Novels und frühen
Superheldencomics stehen dabei im Fokus.
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KeywordsMaskierter Held; Pulp-Novels; Maske; Identität; Geheimnis;
Superhelden
DOI10.33057/chronos.1508
Publisher Chronos Verlag
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Publication date and placeZürich, 2019
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La bande dessinée: Perspectives linguistiques et didactiques
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Contributor(s)
Pustka, Elissa (editor)
CollectionKnowledge Unlatched (KU)
LanguageFrench
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Pour la première fois, un ouvrage collectif traite de la bande dessinée
francaise et francophone d'un point de vue linguistique et didactique. 17
contributions de romanistes, d'expert.e.s en bandes dessinées et
d'enseignant.e.s de FLE présentent un tour d'horizon de ce vaste domaine,
allant de classiques comme Tintin, Astérix ou Les Schtroumpfs à des
publications plus récentes comme Les Cahiers d'Esther, Les Vieux Fourneaux
ou la BD de non-fiction féministe. Les contributions linguistiques
analysent la grammaire de l'oral mise en scène (négation, dislocations,
etc.), différentes variétés (langage des jeunes, francais québécois) et des
problèmes de traduction. Les contributions didactiques montrent le
potentiel de la BD pour l'enseignement du FLE au lycée et à l'université
(notamment dans les pays germanophones).
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KeywordsLiterary Criticism; European
Publisher Gunter Narr Verlag
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Publication date and place2022
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