Understanding genres in comics. ([2020])

• Record Type: Book
• 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" -- Conclusion -- 10 Conclusion: Beyond Genre? -- Index.
• 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.; Note: Description based upon print version of record.
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