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Teaching the Graphic Novel
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- Book Synopsis
- Graphic novels are now appearing in a great variety of courses: composition, literature, drama, popular culture, travel, art, translation. The thirty-four essays in this volume explore issues that the new art form has posed for teachers at the university level. Among the subjects addressed are**x2022;terminology (graphic narrative vs. sequential art, comics vs. comix)**x2022;the three outstanding comics-producing cultures today: the American, the Japanese (manga), and the Franco-Belgian (the bande dessinée)**x2022;the differences between the techniques of graphic narrative and prose narrative,and between the reading patterns for each**x2022;the connections between the graphic novel and film**x2022;the lives of the new genre's practitioners (e.g., Robert Crumb, Harvey Pekar)**x2022;women's contributions to the field (e.g., Lynda Barry)**x2022;how the graphic novel has been used to probe difficult moments in history (the Holocaust, 9/11), deal with social and racial injustice, and voice political satire**x2022;postmodernism in the graphic novel (e.g., in the work of Chris Ware)**x2022;how the American superhero developed in the Depression and World War II**x2022;comix and the 1960s counterculture**x2022;the challenges of teaching graphic novels that contain violence and sexual contentThe volume concludes with a selected bibliography of the graphic novel and sequential art.
- Product Details
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- ISBN
- 9781603290616
- Format
- Paperback
- Publisher
- Modern Language Association of America, (30 January 2009)
- Number of Pages
- 361
- Weight
- 515 grams
- Language
- English
- Dimensions
- 226 x 149 x 27 mm
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