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

[Mike Rhode]

The book's been claimed. Thank you all for volunteering.

Mike Rhode

On Mon, Oct 5, 2020 at 5:45 PM Mike Rhode <mrhode at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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