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  • The Color of Paper

    Representing Race in the Comics Medium

    by Chris Gavaler ...
    Series series Studies in Comics and Cartoons
    How does a comics reader understand that a certain race is assigned to a character? In The Color of Paper, Chris Gavaler establishes a formal approach for analyzing racial representations in comics, demonstrating that the ink-on-paper materiality of comics reveals the illogic of metaphorical colors as racial categorizations. Analyzing images by a wide range of comics artists and colorists, ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • Mixed-Race Superheroes

    by Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Eric L. Berlatsky, Gregory T. Carter, Chris Gavaler, Chris Koenig-Woodyard, Nicholas E. Miller, Isabel Molina-Guzman, Jorge J. Santos, Kwasu David Tembo0, Corrine Esther Collins1, Jasmine Mitchell2, Adrienne Resha3 ...
    American culture has long represented mixed-race identity in paradoxical terms. On the one hand, it has been associated with weakness, abnormality, impurity, transgression, shame, and various pathologies; however, it can also connote genetic superiority, exceptional beauty, and special potentiality. This ambivalence has found its way into superhero media, which runs the gamut from Ant-Man and the ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

  • Revising Reality

    How Sequels, Remakes, Retcons, and Rejects Explain the World

    by Dr Chris Gavaler, Professor Nat Goldberg ...
    The past is fixed – what happened happened. But our descriptions of that past are in constant flux, creating branching networks of contradictory accounts more complex than any fictional franchise. Revising Reality uses pop culture and media concepts of revision to untangle our real-world histories – with startlingly revelatory results.Novels, comics, films, and TV shows can continue previous ... Read more

    $22.19 USD

  • Superhero Comics

    by Dr Chris Gavaler ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Comics Studies
    A complete guide to the history, form and contexts of the genre, Superhero Comics helps readers explore the most successful and familiar of comic book genres.In an accessible and easy-to-navigate format, the book reveals:·The history of superhero comics-from mythic influences to 21st century evolutions·Cultural contexts-from the formative politics of colonialism, eugenics, KKK vigilantism, and ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Desegregating Comics

    Debating Blackness in the Golden Age of American Comics

    by Qiana Whitted, Qiana Whitted, Ian Gordon, Nicholas Sammond, Andrew J. Kunka, Rebecca Wanzo, Chris Gavaler, Monalesia Earle, Blair Davis, Eli Boonin-Vail0, Carol L. Tilley1, Brian Cremins2, Mora Beauchamp-Byrd3, Phillip Lamarr Cunningham4, Jacque Nodell5, Julian C. Chambliss6, Mike Lemon7 ...
    **Winner of the Comics Studies Society Edited Book PrizeShortlisted for the Best Academic / Scholarly Work Eisner AwardHonorable Mention for the Harry Shaw and Katrina Hazzard-Donald Award for Outstanding Work in African-American Popular Culture Studies from the Popular Culture Association**Some comics fans view the industry’s Golden Age (1930s-1950s) as a challenging time when it comes to ... Read more

    $27.39 USD

  • The Comics Form

    The Art of Sequenced Images

    by Dr Chris Gavaler ...
    Answering foundational questions like "what is a comic" and "how do comics work" in original and imaginative ways, this book adapts established, formalist approaches to explaining the experience of reading comics. Taking stock of a multitude of case studies and examples, The Comics Form demonstrates that any object can be read as a comic so long as it displays a set of relevant formal features. ... Read more

    $33.19 USD

  • Creating Comics

    A Writer's and Artist's Guide and Anthology

    by Dr Chris Gavaler, Leigh Ann Beavers ...
    Series series Bloomsbury Writer's Guides and Anthologies
    For creative writers and artists, comics provide unique opportunities for expression – but unique challenges, too. Creating Comics brings together in one volume an authoritative guide to the creative process, with practical drawing exercises throughout and an anthology of comics demonstrating the eclectic possibilities of the form.Creating Comic covers:· Using images to conceive and develop ... Read more

    $30.79 USD

  • Revising Fiction, Fact, and Faith

    A Philosophical Account

    by Nathaniel Goldberg, Chris Gavaler ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Contemporary Philosophy
    This book addresses how our revisionary practices account for relations between texts and how they are read. It offers an overarching philosophy of revision concerning works of fiction, fact, and faith, revealing unexpected insights about the philosophy of language, the metaphysics of fact and fiction, and the history and philosophy of science and religion.Using the novels of J.R.R. Tolkien as ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • On the Origin of Superheroes

    From the Big Bang to Action Comics No. 1

    by Chris Gavaler ...
    Most readers think that superheroes began with Superman’s appearance in Action Comics No. 1, but that Kryptonian rocket didn’t just drop out of the sky. By the time Superman’s creators were born, the superhero’s most defining elements—secret identities, aliases, disguises, signature symbols, traumatic origin stories, extraordinary powers, self-sacrificing altruism—were already well-rehearsed ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Superhero Thought Experiments

    Comic Book Philosophy

    by Chris Gavaler, Nathaniel Goldberg ...
    Examining the deep philosophical topics addressed in superhero comics, authors Gavaler and Goldberg read plot lines for the complex thought experiments they contain and analyze their implications as if the comic authors were philosophers. Reading superhero comic books through a philosophical lens reveals how they experiment with complex issues of morality, metaphysics, meaning, and medium. Given ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

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  • Black Women in Sequence

    Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime

    by Deborah Elizabeth Whaley ...
    Black Women in Sequence takes readers on a search for women of African descent in comics subculture. From the 1971 appearance of the Skywald Publications character “the Butterfly” - the first Black female superheroine in a comic book - to contemporary comic books, graphic novels, film, manga, and video gaming, a growing number of Black women are becoming producers, viewers, and subjects of ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • America on Film

    Representing Race, Class, Gender, and Sexuality at the Movies

    by Harry M. Benshoff, Sean Griffin ...
    A comprehensive and insightful examination of the representation of diverse viewpoints and perspectives in American cinema throughout the 20th and 21st centuriesAmerica on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies, now in its third edition, is an authoritative and lively examination of diversity issues within American cinema. Celebrated authors and academics Harry M. ... Read more

    $46.00 USD