The graphic novel : an introduction /
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 c...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2015.
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| Series: | Cambridge introductions to literature.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.