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  • The Philosophy of Comics

    What They Are, How They Work, and Why They Matter

    by Henry John Pratt ...
    How do comics produce such a striking range of vibrant stories, representations, and expressions of the sensibilities of their creators? Henry John Pratt's The Philosophy of Comics provides a ground-breaking, illustrated introduction to the study of comics and graphic novels, advancing the field of comics studies by attending to some of its most notable problems. Pratt examines the history of ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

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  • Introduction to Documentary, Third Edition

    by Bill Nichols ...
    The third edition of Bill Nichols's best-selling text provides an up-to-date introduction to the most important issues in documentary history and criticism. A new chapter, "I Want to Make a Documentary: Where Do I Start?" guides readers through the steps of planning and preproduction and includes an example of a project proposal for a film that went on to win awards at major festivals. Designed ... Read more

    $23.79 USD

  • The Comics of Chris Ware

    Edited by David M. Ball, Martha B. Kuhlman ...
    The Comics of Chris Ware: Drawing Is a Way of Thinking brings together contributions from established and emerging scholars about the comics of Chicago-based cartoonist Chris Ware (b. 1967). Both inside and outside academic circles, Ware's work is rapidly being distinguished as essential to the developing canon of the graphic novel. Winner of the 2001 Guardian First Book Prize for the genre ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • A Comics Studies Reader

    Edited by Jeet Heer, Kent Worcester ...
    A Comics Studies Reader offers the best of the new comics scholarship in nearly thirty essays on a wide variety of such comics forms as gag cartoons, editorial cartoons, comic strips, comic books, manga, and graphic novels.The anthology covers the pioneering work of Rodolphe Töpffer, the Disney comics of Carl Barks, and the graphic novels of Art Spiegelman and Chris Ware, as well as Peanuts, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero

    Edited by Angela Ndalianis ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Cultural and Media Studies
    Over the last several decades, comic book superheroes have multiplied and, in the process, become more complicated. In this cutting edge anthology an international roster of contributors offer original research and writing on the contemporary comic book superhero, with occasional journeys into the film and television variation. As superheroes and their stories have grown with the audiences that ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Genre and Television

    From Cop Shows to Cartoons in American Culture

    by Jason Mittell ...
    Genre and Television proposes a new understanding of television genres as cultural categories, offering a set of in-depth historical and critical examinations to explore five key aspects of television genre: history, industry, audience, text, and genre mixing. Drawing on well-known television programs from Dragnet to The**Simpsons, this book provides a new model of genre historiography and ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • The Graphic Novel Classroom

    POWerful Teaching and Learning with Images

    by Maureen Bakis ...
    Every teacher knows that keeping adolescents interested in learning can be challenging-The Graphic Novel Classroom overcomes that challenge. In these pages, you will learn how to create your own graphic novel in order to inspire students and make them love reading. Create your own superhero to teach reading, writing, critical thinking, and problem solving!Secondary language arts teacher Maureen ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • Studying Comics and Graphic Novels

    by Karin Kukkonen ...
    This introduction to studying comics and graphic novels is a structured guide to a popular topic. It deploys new cognitive methods of textual analysis and features activities and exercises throughout.Deploys novel cognitive approaches to analyze the importance of psychological and physical aspects of reader experienceCarefully structured to build a sequenced, rounded introduction to the ... Read more

    $26.00 USD

  • Birth of an Industry

    Blackface Minstrelsy and the Rise of American Animation

    by Nicholas Sammond ...
    In Birth of an Industry, Nicholas Sammond describes how popular early American cartoon characters were derived from blackface minstrelsy. He charts the industrialization of animation in the early twentieth century, its representation in the cartoons themselves, and how important blackface minstrels were to that performance, standing in for the frustrations of animation workers. Cherished cartoon ... Read more

    $22.29 USD

  • Projections

    Comics and the History of Twenty-First-Century Storytelling

    by Jared Gardner ...
    Series series Post*45
    When Art Spiegelman's Maus won the Pulitzer Prize in 1992, it marked a new era for comics. Comics are now taken seriously by the same academic and cultural institutions that long dismissed the form. And the visibility of comics continues to increase, with alternative cartoonists now published by major presses and more comics-based films arriving on the screen each year.Projections argues that the ... Read more

    $22.99 USD

  • Diving Southeast Asia for iPad: A guide to the world's most diverse marine environment

    by Beth & Shaun Tierney ...
    Series series Footprint Activity Guides
    Diving Southeast Asia introduces divers to the world's most diverse marine environment. This truly comparative guide includes over 400 popular sites, all of which have been dived, reviewed and photographed by experienced husband-and-wife team, Beth and Shaun Tierney. From the pristine, isolated reefs of Indonesia's Spice Islands to the lively marine and land environments in The Philippines' Puerto ... Read more

    $12.79 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Graphic Novels and Comics in the Classroom

    Essays on the Educational Power of Sequential Art

    Edited by Robert G. Weiner, Carrye Kay Syma ...
    Sequential art combines the visual and the narrative in a way that readers have to interpret the images with the writing. Comics make a good fit with education because students are using a format that provides active engagement. This collection of essays is a wide-ranging look at current practices using comics and graphic novels in educational settings, from elementary schools through college. The ... Read more

    $16.39 USD