- Paperback: 244 pages
- Publisher: McFarland & Company (Oct 1 2010)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0786442948
- ISBN-13: 978-0786442942
- Product Dimensions: 22.4 x 15 x 1.5 cm
- Shipping Weight: 340 g
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: #432,377 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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A collection of current scholarship on Comic Books aimed at academic readers, Jun 3 2011
By Cultural Production - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature: Critical Essays on the Form (Paperback)
Published in 2010, The Rise and Reason of Comics and Graphic Literature aims to be a series of snapshots of the current state of the discipline of Comic Book Studies. The 15 articles that make up this anthology are thus written by academics for academics and reflect primarily academic concerns. The articles are grouped into five sections: the history and development of the genre, comic book theory and terminology, comics and adapatations, superheros, and nonfiction in comics.As for the articles themselves, they are a mixed bag but do offer a fairly good representation of the kind of scholarly work being written on comic books these days. Some, such as Dnaiel Yezbick's piece on Jingle Jangle Comics and Joyce Goggin's on William Hogarth, are smart, informative pieces of well-executed research whose subject matter will nevertheless likely fail to interest most non-academic readers. Others, such as Karin Kukkonen's analysis of Planetray and Julia Round's "Barthesian" reading of From Hell are compelling close readings of individual series and may interest non-academic fans of those series. The worst here, however, are quite bad and will likely please no one. An article on "superhero crossovers" with the graphic novel, for instance, even gets basic publication facts wrong (Watchmen was originally published as a 12-issue series, not a graphic novel).
Overall, this is a decent enough collection that is worth checking out if you're a comic book scholar, but it does nothing to advance or even help standardize the field. If you're not a scholar, however, it's definitely not worth your money. Pick up The Power of Comics: History, Form and Culture instead--it makes for a better-researched and more comprehensive read.
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