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The Expanding Art of Comics
Ten Modern Masterpieces
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
In The Expanding Art of Comics: Ten Modern Masterpieces, prominent scholar Thierry Groensteen offers a distinct perspective on important evolutions in comics since the 1960s through close readings of ten seminal works. He covers over half a century of comics production, sampling a single work from...
Dave Sim
Conversations
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2013
In 1977, Dave Sim (b. 1956) began to self-publish Cerebus, one of the earliest and most significant independent comics, which ran for 300 issues and ended, as Sim had planned from early on, in 2004. Over the run of the comic, Sim used it as a springboard to explore not only the potential of the comics...
by Chris Bishop
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
The comic book has become an essential icon of the American Century, an era defined by optimism in the face of change and by recognition of the intrinsic value of democracy and modernization. For many, the Middle Ages stand as an antithesis to these ideals, and yet medievalist comics have emerged...
Between Distant Modernities
Performing Exceptionality in Francoist Spain and the Jim Crow South
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2015
For centuries, Spain and the South have stood out as the exceptional "other" within U.S. and European nationalisms. During Franco's regime and the Jim Crow era both violently asserted a haunting brand of national "selfhood." Both areas shared a loss of splendor and a fraught relation...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
This volume sheds a much-needed light on Edwidge Danticat (b. 1969) and her ability to depict timely issues in sparkling prose that delves deep into the borderlands, an uncharted in-between space located outside fixed geographic, cultural, and ideological bounds. Prevalent throughout many interviews...
Reading Lessons in Seeing
Mirrors, Masks, and Mazes in the Autobiographical Graphic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2017
Literary scholar Michael A. Chaney examines graphic novels to illustrate that in form and function they inform readers on how they ought to be read. His arguments result in an innovative analysis of the various knowledges that comics produce and the methods artists and writers employ to convey them....
Prefiguring Postblackness
Cultural Memory, Drama, and the African American Freedom Struggle of the 1960s
Language: English
Release Date: November 23, 2015
Prefiguring Postblackness explores the tensions between cultural memory of the African American freedom struggle and representations of African American identity staged in five plays between 1959 and 1969 during the civil rights era. Through close readings of the plays, their popular and African American...
Cajun and Zydeco Dance Music in Northern California
Modern Pleasures in a Postmodern World
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2008
Queen Ida. Danny Poullard. Documentary filmmaker Les Blank. Chris Strachwitz and Arhoolie Records. These are names that are familiar to many fans of Cajun music and zydeco, and they have one other thing in common--longtime residence in the San Francisco Bay Area. They are all part of a vibrant scene...
Mothers in Children's and Young Adult Literature
From the Eighteenth Century to Postfeminism
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
Living or dead, present or absent, sadly dysfunctional or merrily adequate, the figure of the mother bears enormous freight across a child's emotional and intellectual life. Given the vital role literary mothers play in books for young readers, it is remarkable how little scholarly attention has been...
Embroidered Stories
Interpreting Women's Domestic Needlework from the Italian Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2014
For Italian immigrants and their descendants, needlework represents a marker of identity, a cultural touchstone as powerful as pasta and Neapolitan music. Out of the artifacts of their memory and imagination, Italian immigrants and their descendants used embroidering, sewing, knitting, and crocheting...
Dining with Madmen
Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2019
In Dining with Madmen: Fat, Food, and the Environment in 1980s Horror, author Thomas Fahy explores America’s preoccupation with body weight, processed foods, and pollution through the lens of horror. Conspicuous consumption may have communicated success in the eighties, but only if it did not become...
John Cassavetes
Interviews
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
American filmmaker John Cassavetes (1929-1989) made only nine independent films during a quarter century, but those films affected the cinema culture of the 1960s to the 1980s in unprecedented ways. With a close nucleus of actors and crew members on his team, including his wife Gena Rowlands, Peter...
by Kerry D. Soper
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2018
Kerry D. Soper reminds us of The Far Side's groundbreaking qualities and cultural significance in Gary Larson and "The Far Side." In the 1980s, Gary Larson (b. 1950) shook up a staid comics page by introducing a set of aesthetic devices, comedic tones, and philosophical frames that challenged and...
Ainâ??t That a Knee-Slapper
Rural Comedy in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2008
There was a time when rural comedians drew most of their humor from tales of farmers' daughters, hogs, hens, and hill country high jinks. Lum and Abner and Ma and Pa Kettle might not have toured happily under the "Redneck" marquee, but they were its precursors. In Ain't That a Knee-Slapper: Rural...