[Comicsstudiessociety] IJOCA book available for review - Critical Directions in Comics Studies (only in USA)

[Mike Rhode]

 Available in print to the first person in the US to write back to me
directly - Mike
Critical Directions in Comics Studies
Edited by Thomas Giddens
<https://www.upress.state.ms.us/Contributors/G/Giddens-Thomas>
*Hardcover :* 9781496828996, 332 pages, 63 b&w illustrations, August 2020
*Paperback :* 9781496829009, 332 pages, 63 b&w illustrations, August 2020

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An examination of the cutting-edge critical engagement in the field of
modern comics studies
Description

Contributions by Paul Fisher Davies, Lisa DeTora, Yasemin J. Erden, Adam
Gearey, Thomas Giddens, Peter Goodrich, Maggie Gray, Matthew J. A. Green,
Vladislav Maksimov, Timothy D. Peters, Christopher Pizzino, Nicola
Streeten, and Lydia Wysocki

Recent decades have seen comics studies blossom, but within the ecosystems
of this growth, dominant assumptions have taken root—assumptions around the
particular methods used to approach the comics form, the ways we should
read comics, how its “system” works, and the disciplinary relationships
that surround this evolving area of study. But other perspectives have also
begun to flourish. These approaches question the reliance on structural
linguistics and the tools of English and cultural studies in the
examination and understanding of comics.

In this edited collection, scholars from a variety of disciplines examine
comics by addressing materiality and form as well as the wider economic and
political contexts of comics’ creation and reception. Through this lens,
influenced by poststructuralist theories, contributors explore and
elaborate other possibilities for working with comics as a critical
resource, consolidating the emergence of these alternative modes of
engagement in a single text. This opens comics studies to a wider array of
resources, perspectives, and modes of engagement.

Included in this volume are essays on a range of comics and illustrations
as well as considerations of such popular comics as* Deadpool*, *Daredevil*,
and *V for Vendetta*, and analyses of comics production, medical
illustrations, and original comics. Some contributions even unfold in the
form of comics panels.
Reviews

If there have been some rather weary debates about the intellectual
maturation of comics studies over the past few years, then this book puts
them to bed. Combining comics with the academic essay and close readings
with discussions of history, theory, and form, the contributors stake out a
new field called ‘critical comics studies’—crucial reading for all scholars
interested in growing the discipline.
- Dominic Davies, author of Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global
City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives and coeditor of Documenting Trauma
in Comics: Traumatic Pasts, Embodied Histories, and Graphic Reportage

*Critical Directions in Comics Studies *offers a set of excellent essays
that make a significant contribution to the development and evolution of
comics studies. The essays extend the ways in which comics are treated in
terms of themes, theories, and modes of writing. The collection is of a
high quality and is innovative in approach, style, and content. On a number
of occasions, it really does show what is possible in comics studies and
where the field might be going.
- Neal Curtis, author of Sovereignty and Superheroes
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