The Greatest Comic Book of All Time: Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books

by Benjamin Woo and Bart Beaty

Book Overview

This book offers a series of short, provocative essays about value and reputation in the world of American comic books. Inspired by Pierre Bourdieu's analyses of fields of cultural production, The Greatest Comic Book of All Time explores why works have the reputations that they do and what it might take to re-structure the comics world along different principles.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137561963
• ISBN13: 9781137561961
• Release Date: April 2016
• Publisher: Palgrave Pivot
• Length: 156 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 8.7"