Breaking the Frames - Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies Singer MarcPaperback / softback
Breaking the Frames - Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies Singer MarcPaperback / softback Comics studies has reached a crossroads. As a result, comics studies has begun to cleave into distinct…
Specifikacia Breaking the Frames - Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies Singer MarcPaperback / softback
Breaking the Frames - Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies Singer MarcPaperback / softback
Comics studies has reached a crossroads. As a result, comics studies has begun to cleave into distinct camps--based primarily in cultural or literary studies--that attempt to dictate the boundaries of the discipline or else resist disciplinarity itself. 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.
Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies surveys the current state of comics scholarship, interrogating its dominant schools, questioning their mutual estrangement, and challenging their propensity to champion the comics they study. The consequence is a growing disconnect in the ways that comics scholars talk to each other--or, more frequently, do not talk to each other or even acknowledge each other's work.