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  • The Norwegian-American Lutheran Experience in 1950s Japan

    Stepping up to the Cold War Challenge

    by Kate Allen, John E. Ingulsrud ...
    Stepping Up to the Cold War Challenge: The Norwegian-American Lutheran Experience in 1950s Japan describes the events that led to the Evangelical Lutheran Church (ELC), an American Christian denomination, to respond to General MacArthur’s call for missionaries. This Church did not initially respond, but did so in 1949 only after their missionaries had been expelled from China due to the victory of ... Read more

    $121.49 USD

  • Reading Japan Cool

    Patterns of Manga Literacy and Discourse

    by Kate Allen, John E. Ingulsrud ...
    Japanese animation, video games, and manga have attracted fans around the world. The characters, the stories, and the sensibilities that come out of these cultural products are together called Japan Cool. This is not a sudden fad, but is rooted in manga-Japanese comics-which since the mid-1940s have developed in an exponential way. In spite of a gradual decline in readership, manga still commands ... Read more

    $47.79 USD

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  • Dick Grayson, Boy Wonder

    Scholars and Creators on 75 Years of Robin, Nightwing and Batman

    Edited by Kristen L. Geaman ...
    Dick Grayson--alter-ego of the original Robin of Batman comics--has gone through various changes in his 75 years as a superhero but has remained the optimistic, humorous character readers first embraced in 1940. Predating Green Lantern and Wonder Woman, he is one of DC Comics' oldest heroes and retains a large and loyal fanbase.The first scholarly work to focus exclusively on the Boy Wonder, this ... Read more

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  • Will Eisner

    Conversations

    Edited by M. Thomas Inge ...
    Series series Conversations with Comic Artists Series
    Will Eisner's innovations in the comics, especially the comic book and the graphic novel, as well as his devotion to comics analysis, make him one of comics' first true auteurs and the cartoonist so revered and influential that cartooning's highest honor is named after him. His newspaper feature The Spirit (1940-1952) introduced the now-common splash page to the comic book, as well as dramatic ... Read more

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  • Gothic in Comics and Graphic Novels

    A Critical Approach

    by Julia Round ...
    This book explores the connections between comics and Gothic from four different angles: historical, formal, cultural and textual. It identifies structures, styles and themes drawn from literary gothic traditions and discusses their presence in British and American comics today, with particular attention to the DC Vertigo imprint.Part One offers an historical approach to British and American ... Read more

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  • Popeye: An Illustrated Cultural History, 2d ed.

    An Illustrated Cultural History, 2d ed.

    by Fred M. Grandinetti ...
    It's a rare comic character who can make audiences laugh for well over half a century--but then again, it's a pretty rare cartoon hero who can boast of forearms thicker than his waist, who can down a can of spinach in a single gulp, or who generally faces the world with one eye squinted completely shut. When E.C. Segar's gruff but lovable sailor man first tooted his pipe to the public on January 7 ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Old Trout Funnies

    The Comic Origins of the Cape Breton Liberation Army

    by Ian Brodie, PhD ...
    Now iconic to Canadian, if not global culture, Cape Breton Island underwent a metamorphosis of sorts during the 1970s and 1980s. Long marginalized by geography, economics and predominant mainland political culture, a countercultural sea change brought the island’s deeply rooted creative side—music, drama, literature and humour—to centre stage. One such stage was Old Trout Funnies, a homegrown ... Read more

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  • The Comic Book Film Adaptation

    Exploring Modern Hollywood's Leading Genre

    by Liam Burke ...
    In the summer of 2000 X-Men surpassed all box office expectations and ushered in an era of unprecedented production of comic book film adaptations. This trend, now in its second decade, has blossomed into Hollywood's leading genre. From superheroes to Spartan warriors, The Comic Book Film Adaptation offers the first dedicated study to examine how comic books moved from the fringes of popular ... Read more

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  • Superwomen

    Gender, Power, and Representation

    by Professor Carolyn Cocca ...
    Winner of the 2017 Eisner Award in the Best Academic/Scholarly Work category2017 Prose Awards Honorable Mention, Media & Cultural StudiesOver the last 75 years, superheroes have been portrayed most often as male, heterosexual, white, and able-bodied. Today, a time when many of these characters are billion-dollar global commodities, there are more female superheroes, more queer superheroes, more ... Read more

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  • The Ages of the Justice League

    Essays on America's Greatest Superheroes in Changing Times

    Edited by Joseph J. Darowski ...
    The first superhero team from the Silver Age of comics, DC's Justice League has seen many iterations since its first appearance in 1960. As the original comic book continued and spin-off titles proliferated, talented writers, artists and editors adapted the team to appeal to changing audience tastes.This collection of new essays examines more than five decades of Justice League comics and related ... Read more

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  • Comics and Language

    Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form

    by Hannah Miodrag ...
    It has become an axiom in comic studies that “comics is a language, not a genre.” But what exactly does that mean, and how is discourse on the form both aided and hindered by thinking of it in linguistic terms? In Comics and Language, Hannah Miodrag challenges many of the key assumptions about the “grammar” and formal characteristics of comics, and offers a more nuanced, theoretical framework that ... Read more

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