Comics and Ideology: Second Printing (Popular Culture and Everyday Life)
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| Rating | : | 4.41 (695 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0820452491 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 303 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-07-24 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
Focusing on the intersection of social power and comic art, essays in this book explore how images and narratives in comic books and comic strips may portray social groups and social issues. As a scholarly examination of a form known as «the funnies» or «funny books,» this book argues that the themes and characterizations in comic art are often quite serious. Essays take diverse theoretical perspectives such as cultural studies, political economy, feminist criticism, queer studies, and mythic analysis, all focusing on the relationship of comics to issues of social division.. Superman’s role in romanticizing commercialism; sexual violence in Japanese manga comics; Wonder Woman as Americanized immigrant; reader’s reactions to the gay superhero Northstar; Dilbert as a workplace revolutionary; the Punisher’s invasion of Vietnam – these are a few of the issues that Comics & Ideology addresses
McAllister is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. He is the author of The Commercialization of American Culture: New Advertising, Control and Democracy. Edward H. Ian Gordon is Associate Professor in the American Studies Centre, National University of Singapore. He is the author of Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945. is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. He also studies the use of ethnic imagery in American advertising and the cultural role of the United States in the Asia-Pacific region. He has written about comics and editorial cartoons in
"Interesting, but Lacks Vital Core." according to Matthew J. Wolf-Meyer. Excluding the introduction, Comics & Ideology includes eleven rather different essays, which is to say that the only unifying themes in the various contributions, as the reader might expect, are "comics" and "ideology." Unfortunately, both have such varied definitions that although they are used with great frequency in the collection, they are often referring to vastly different things. "Comics" include everything from Japanese magna to syndicated American newspaper strips to traditional superhero comics. Similarly, "ideology" refers to gender politics, race and ethnicity, n
He is the author of The Commercialization of American Culture: New Advertising, Control and Democracy. Edward H. McAllister is Associate Professor in the Department of Communication Studies at Virginia Tech. He is the author of Comic Strips and Consumer Culture, 1890-1945. He also studies the use of ethnic imagery in American advertising