Understanding genres in comics. ([2020])
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Understanding genres in comics. ([2020])
- Main Title:
- Understanding genres in comics
- Further Information:
- Note: Nicolas Labarre.
- Authors:
- Labarre, Nicolas
- Contents:
- Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction: Genres as Formula, Genres Beyond Formula -- Genres in Texts -- Cluster, Resemblances, and Exemplars -- Genres in Use, Genres as Uses -- Method -- 2. Are Genres Media Specific? -- The Case for Medium-Specificity -- Cultural and Industrial Convergence -- Conclusion -- 3. Where Are Genres in Comics? -- Genre in the Paratext -- Funny Animals, Genre in the Texts -- Conclusion -- 4. How Genres Emerge: Horror Comics -- Horrific Comics Without a Genre -- The Institutionalization of Horror Through Intermedial Alignment -- A Bifurcated Genre, Horror and Weird -- Conclusion -- 5. How Genres Are Maintained: The Case of Genre Curation in Crossovers -- Crossovers as Crossovers -- Emerging Architexts Negotiating Genre -- Conclusion -- 6. The Uses of Genre: Productivity, Cultural Distinction and Shared Culture -- The Appeal of the Known -- Genres as Intertextual Building Blocks -- Cultural Memories -- Cultural Hierarchies -- Conclusion -- 7. The Uses of Genre: Generic Discourses Among Producing Fans -- Amateurs? -- Method and Platforms -- Hashtags and Genres -- Conclusion -- 8. The Uses of Genres: Asserting Authority -- Readers and Fans as Critics -- Polite Disagreements -- The Amazing Spider-Man After 9/11 -- Comicsgate, Genre and Interpretive Power -- Conclusion -- 9 Invisible Genres and Other Architexts -- Literary Adaptation as Genre -- Graphic Novel, Manga, YA -- Mignola Comics and "Personal Genres" --Intro -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- List of Figures -- 1. Introduction: Genres as Formula, Genres Beyond Formula -- Genres in Texts -- Cluster, Resemblances, and Exemplars -- Genres in Use, Genres as Uses -- Method -- 2. Are Genres Media Specific? -- The Case for Medium-Specificity -- Cultural and Industrial Convergence -- Conclusion -- 3. Where Are Genres in Comics? -- Genre in the Paratext -- Funny Animals, Genre in the Texts -- Conclusion -- 4. How Genres Emerge: Horror Comics -- Horrific Comics Without a Genre -- The Institutionalization of Horror Through Intermedial Alignment -- A Bifurcated Genre, Horror and Weird -- Conclusion -- 5. How Genres Are Maintained: The Case of Genre Curation in Crossovers -- Crossovers as Crossovers -- Emerging Architexts Negotiating Genre -- Conclusion -- 6. The Uses of Genre: Productivity, Cultural Distinction and Shared Culture -- The Appeal of the Known -- Genres as Intertextual Building Blocks -- Cultural Memories -- Cultural Hierarchies -- Conclusion -- 7. The Uses of Genre: Generic Discourses Among Producing Fans -- Amateurs? -- Method and Platforms -- Hashtags and Genres -- Conclusion -- 8. The Uses of Genres: Asserting Authority -- Readers and Fans as Critics -- Polite Disagreements -- The Amazing Spider-Man After 9/11 -- Comicsgate, Genre and Interpretive Power -- Conclusion -- 9 Invisible Genres and Other Architexts -- Literary Adaptation as Genre -- Graphic Novel, Manga, YA -- Mignola Comics and "Personal Genres" -- Conclusion -- 10 Conclusion: Beyond Genre? -- Index. … (more)
- Publisher Details:
- Cham : Palgrave Macmillan
- Publication Date:
- 2020
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (x, 157 pages), illustrations
- Subjects:
- 741.5
Comic books, strips, etc -- History and criticism
Comic books, strips, etc -- Themes, motives
Comic books, strips, etc
Comic books, strips, etc -- Themes, motives
Electronic books
Literary criticism
Criticism, interpretation, etc - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9783030435547
3030435547 - Related ISBNs:
- 9783030435530
- Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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- Legal Deposit; Only available on premises controlled by the deposit library and to one user at any one time; The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK).
- Access Usage:
- Restricted: Printing from this resource is governed by The Legal Deposit Libraries (Non-Print Works) Regulations (UK) and UK copyright law currently in force.
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- Available online (eLD content is only available in our Reading Rooms) ↗
- Physical Locations:
- British Library HMNTS - ELD.DS.507750
- Ingest File:
- 03_084.xml