Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies

by Marc Singer

Book Overview

A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2019

Comics studies has reached a crossroads. Graphic novels have never received more attention and legitimation from scholars, but new canons and new critical discourses have created tensions within a field built on the populist rhetoric of cultural studies. As a result, comics studies has begun to cleave into distinct camps--based primarily in cultural or literary studies--that attempt to dictate...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1477317104
• ISBN13: 9781477317105
• Release Date: January 2019
• Publisher: University of Texas Press
• Length: 312 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"