The graphic novel : an introduction / Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey.
Baetens, Jan, author.; Frey, Hugo, author.
2015
PN6710 .B235 2015 (Mapit)
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Title
The graphic novel : an introduction / Jan Baetens, Hugo Frey.
Author
Baetens, Jan, author.
ISBN
9781107655768 paperback
1107655765 paperback
9781107025233 hardcover
1107025230 hardcover
Published
New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.
Language
English
Description
viii, 286 pages ; 24 cm.
Call Number
PN6710 .B235 2015
Dewey Decimal Classification
741.5/9
Summary
"This book provides both students and scholars with a critical and historical introduction to the graphic novel. Jan Baetens and Hugo Frey explore this exciting form of visual and literary communication, showing readers how to situate and analyze graphic novels since their rise to prominence half a century ago. Several key questions are addressed: What is the graphic novel? How do we read graphic novels as narrative forms? Why is page design and publishing format so significant? What theories are developing to explain the genre? How is this form blurring the categories of high and popular literature? Why are graphic novelists nostalgic for the old comics? The authors address these and many other questions raised by the genre. Through their analysis of the works of many well-known graphic novelists - including Bechdel, Clowes, Spiegelman and Ware - Baetens and Frey offer significant insights for future teaching and research on the graphic novel"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Added Author
Frey, Hugo, author.
Series
Cambridge introductions to literature.
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Introduction: The Graphic Novel, a Special Type of Comics
Adult Comics before the Graphic Novel: From Moral Panic to Pop Art Sensationalism, 1945-c.1967
Underground Comix and Mainstream Evolutions, 1968-c.1980
"Not Just for Kids": Clever Comics and the New Graphic Novels
Understanding Panel and Page Layouts
Drawing and Style, Word and Image
The Graphic Novel as a Specific Form of Storytelling
The Graphic Novel and Literary Fiction: Exchanges, Interplays, and Fusions
Nostalgia and the Return of History
A short bibliographic guide.

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