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These essays from various critical disciplines examine how comic books and graphic narratives move between various media, while merging youth and adult cultures and popular and high art. The articles feature international perspectives on comics and graphic novels published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, India, and Japan. Topics range from film adaptation, to journalism in comics, to the current manga boom.
Contents
Table of Contents
Introduction
INTERMEDIAL
1. Spatializing the Movie Screen: How Mainstream Cinema Is Catching Up on the Formal Potentialities of the Comic Book Page
Jochen Ecke
2. The Marvel Universe on Screen: A New Wave of Superhero Movies?
Andreas Rauscher
3. From Trauma Victim to Terrorist: Redefining Superheroes in Post-9/11 Hollywood
Dan A. Hassler-Forest
4. "Picture This": Disease and Autobiographic Narration in the Graphic Novels of David B and Julie Doucet
Jonas Engelmann
5. Novel-Based Comics
Paul Ferstl
6. In the Art of the Beholder: Comics as Political Journalism
Dirk Vanderbeke
INTERNATIONAL
7. The Carrefour of Practice: Québec BD in Transition
Michel Hardy-Vallée
8. The Use of Allusion in Apitz and Kunkel's Karl Comics
Sandra Martina Schwab
9. Cultural Specifics of a Scottish Comic: Oor Wullie
Anne Hoyer
10. Memento Mori: A Portuguese Style of Melancholy
Mario Gomes and Jan Peuckert
11. Otherness and the European as Villain and Antihero in American Comics
Georg Drennig
12. 2000AD: Understanding the "British Invasion" of American Comics
Ben Little
13. Whatever Happened to All the Heroes? British Perspectives on Superheroes
Karin Kukkonen and Anja Müller-Wood
14. A Cornerstone of Turkish Fantastic Films: From Flash Gordon to Baytekin
Meral Özçınar
15. From Capes to Snakes: The Indianization of the American Superhero
Suchitra Mathur
16. The Roving Eye Meets Traveling Pictures: The Field of Vision and the Global Rise of Adult Manga
Holger Briel
17. Kawaii vs. Rorikon: The Reinvention of the Term Lolita in Modern Japanese Manga
Dinah Zank
18. Mangascape Germany: Comics as Intercultural Neutral Ground
Paul M. Malone
INTERDISCIPLINARY
19. Workshop I: Toward a Toolbox of Comics Studies
Karin Kukkonen and Gideon Haberkorn
20. Workshop II: Comics in School
Mark Berninger
21. Workshop III: Teaching Comics and Literary Studies—Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Mark Berninger
22. Workshop IV: Teaching Comics and Film Studies—Ang Lee's The Hulk (USA 2003)
Andreas Rauscher
23. Comic Linguistics: Comics and Cartoons in Academic Teaching
Christina Sanchez
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