The Greatest Comic Book of All Time
Bart Beaty and Benjamin Woo work to historicize why it is that certain works or creators have come to define the notion of a "quality comic book," while other works and creators have been left at the fringes of critical analysis.
| Autor: | Beaty, Bart Woo, Benjamin |
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| ISBN: | 9781137561961 |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Seitenzahl: | 156 |
| Produktart: | Gebunden |
| Verlag: | Palgrave Macmillan US |
| Veröffentlicht: | 28.04.2016 |
| Untertitel: | Symbolic Capital and the Field of American Comic Books |
| Schlagworte: | Bourdieu Canonization Comic books Comics Graphic Narrative Graphic novels Symbolic Capital |
Bart Beaty is Professor of English at the University of Calgary, Canada. Among other works, he is the author of Twelve-Cent Archie , Comics Versus Art , and Unpopular Culture . Benjamin Woo is Assistant Professor in the School of Journalism and Communication at Carleton University, Canada. His research examines contemporary geek media cultures, with a particular focus on the producers, institutions, and audiences oriented to comics and graphic novels.