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  • Petrochemical Fantasies

    The Art and Energy of American Comics

    by Daniel Worden ...
    Series series Studies in Comics and Cartoons
    Finalist, Comics Studies Society Charles Hatfield Book Prize 2025Nominee, Eisner Award for Best Academic/Scholarly Work 2025In Petrochemical Fantasies, Daniel Worden reveals the entwined history of comics and fossil fuels in the United States. From the 1840s to the present, comics have depicted the power, pollution, and rapid expansion of energy systems—especially the explosive growth of coal and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • New Directions in Print Culture Studies

    Archives, Materiality, and Modern American Culture

    New Directions in Print Culture Studiesfeatures new methods and approaches to cultural and literary history that draw on periodicals, print culture, and material culture, thus revising and rewriting what we think we know about the aesthetic, cultural, and social history of transnational America.The unifying questions posed and answered in this book are methodological: How can we make material, ... Read more

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  • The Comics of R. Crumb

    Underground in the Art Museum

    Edited by Daniel Worden ...
    Series series Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists
    Contributions by José Alaniz, Ian Blechschmidt, Paul Fisher Davies, Zanne Domoney-Lyttle, David Huxley, Lynn Marie Kutch, Julian Lawrence, Liliana Milkova, Stiliana Milkova, Kim A. Munson, Jason S. Polley, Paul Sheehan, Clarence Burton Sheffield Jr., and Daniel WordenFrom his work on underground comix like Zap and Weirdo, to his cultural prominence, R. Crumb is one of the most renowned comics ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • The Comics of Joe Sacco

    Journalism in a Visual World

    Edited by Daniel Worden ...
    Series series Tom Inge Series on Comics Artists
    Named a Notable Scholarly Publication of 2015 by the Comics Studies SocietyContributions by Georgiana Banita, Lan Dong, Ann D'Orazio, Kevin C. Dunn, Alexander Dunst, Jared Gardner, Edward C. Holland, Isabel Macdonald, Brigid Maher, Ben Owen, Rebecca Scherr, Maureen Shay, Marc Singer, Richard Todd Stafford, and Øyvind VågnesThe Comics of Joe Sacco addresses the range of his award-winning work, from ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Postmodern/Postwar and After

    Rethinking American Literature

    Series series New American Canon
    Within the past ten years, the field of contemporary American literary studies has changed significantly. Following the turn of the twenty-first century and mounting doubts about the continued explanatory power of the category of “postmodernism,” new organizations have emerged, book series have been launched, journals have been created, and new methodologies, periodizations, and thematics have ... Read more

    $46.79 USD

  • Oil Culture

    Edited by Ross Barrett, Daniel Worden ...
    In the 150 years since the birth of the petroleum industry oil has saturated our culture, fueling our cars and wars, our economy and policies. But just as thoroughly, culture saturates oil. So what exactly is “oil culture”? This book pursues an answer through petrocapitalism’s history in literature, film, fine art, wartime propaganda, and museum displays. Investigating cultural discourses that ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • Neoliberal Nonfictions

    The Documentary Aesthetic from Joan Didion to Jay-Z

    by Daniel Worden ...
    Series series Cultural Frames, Framing Culture
    With the ascendancy of neoliberalism in American culture beginning in the 1960s, the political structures governing private lives became more opaque and obscure. Neoliberal Nonfictions argues that a new style of documentary art emerged to articulate the fissures between individual experience and reality in the era of finance capitalism.In this wide-ranging study, Daniel Worden touches on issues ... Read more

    $30.59 USD

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  • American Comics

    A History

    by Jeremy Dauber ...
    The sweeping story of cartoons, comic strips, and graphic novels and their hold on the American imagination.Comics have conquered America. From our multiplexes, where Marvel and DC movies reign supreme, to our television screens, where comics-based shows like The Walking Dead have become among the most popular in cable history, to convention halls, best-seller lists, Pulitzer Prize–winning titles, ... Read more

    $15.39 USD

  • Hold It Against Me

    Difficulty and Emotion in Contemporary Art

    In Hold It Against Me, Jennifer Doyle explores the relationship between difficulty and emotion in contemporary art, treating emotion as an artist's medium. She encourages readers to examine the ways in which works of art challenge how we experience not only the artist's feelings, but our own. Discussing performance art, painting, and photography, Doyle provides new perspectives on artists ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • A New History of Documentary Film

    Second Edition

    A New History of Documentary Film, Second Edition offers a much-needed resource, considering the very rapid changes taking place within documentary media. Building upon the best-selling 2005 edition, Betsy McLane keeps the same chronological examination, factual reliability, ease of use and accessible prose style as before, while also weaving three new threads - Experimental Documentary, Visual ... Read more

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  • The Princeton Guide to Historical Research

    Series series Skills for Scholars
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