Teaching Comics Through Multiple Lenses (eBook, PDF)

Critical Perspectives
Redaktion: Hill, Crag

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing from range of current scholarship demonstrating that comics are an expressive medium whose moves (structural and aesthetic) may be shared by literature, the visual arts, and film, possessing qualities these other mediums do not, this volume, written by teachers and scholars of comics for instructors, bridges research and pedagogy, providing models of critical readings around a variety of comic works.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 186
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317232599
• Artikelnr.: 45694961

Autorenporträt

Crag Allen Hill is Assistant Professor of English Education at Jeannine Rainbolt College of Education, University of Oklahoma, USA.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents

Preface

1. Introduction: The Growing Relevance of Comics

Crag Hill



Section 1: Materiality and the Reading of Comics



2. Designing Meaning: A Multimodal Perspective on Comics Reading

Sean P. Connors

3. Multimodal Forms: Examining Text, Image, and Visual Literacy in Daniel Handler's Why We Broke Up and Markus Zusak's The Book Thief

Amy Bright



Section 2: Comics and Bodies



4. Illustrating Youth: A Critical Examination of the Artful Depictions of

Adolescent Characters in Comics

Mark A. Lewis

5. Just Like Us? LGBTQ Characters in Mainstream Comics

A. Scott Henderson



Section 3: Comics and the Mind



6. Telling the Untellable: Comics and Language of Mental Illness

Sarah Thaller

7. Christian Forgiveness in Gene Luen Yang's Animal Crackers and Eternal Smile: A Thematic Analysis

Jake Stratman



Section 4: Comics and Contemporary Society



8. Poverty Lines: Visual Depictions of Poverty and Social Class Realities in Comics

Fred Johnson, Whitworth University, and Janine J. Darragh, University of Idaho

9. Can Superhero Comics Defeat Racism?: Black Superheroes "Torn between Sci-Fi Fantasy and Cultural Reality"

P.L. Thomas

10. Teaching Native American Comics with Post-Colonial Theory

Lisa Schade Eckert



Section 5: Endpoints



11. Crag Hill



List of Contributors



Additional resources were compiled by Shaina Thomas.

Rezensionen

"For a relatively compact book, Teaching Comics covers substantial ground... Teaching Comics usefully illustrates the importance of comics as a medium and area of study on its own, apart from other media. Though this does not come across as a campaign for legitimacy, it is clear that these scholars have a vested interested in growth and development of this area."
- Jacinta Yanders, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

"This edited volume provides teachers with a series of theoretical approaches applied to a variety of comics to help them in their own practice. It touches on an impressive breadth of graphic texts and theories. meant to open up new ways of thinking about using comics in the classroom. "

- John D. Benjamin, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, UTP Journals

"For a relatively compact book, Teaching Comics covers substantial ground... Teaching Comics usefully illustrates the importance of comics as a medium and area of study on its own, apart from other media. Though this does not come across as a campaign for legitimacy, it is clear that these scholars have a vested interested in growth and development of this area."
- Jacinta Yanders, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature

"This edited volume provides teachers with a series of theoretical approaches applied to a variety of comics to help them in their own practice. It touches on an impressive breadth of graphic texts and theories. meant to open up new ways of thinking about using comics in the classroom. "

- John D. Benjamin, Seminar: A Journal of Germanic Studies, UTP Journals