Routledge Advances in Comics Studies
About the Book Series
Routledge Advances in Comics Studies promotes outstanding research on comics and graphic novels from communication theory, rhetorical theory and media studies perspectives. Additionally, the series aims to bring European, Asian, African, and Latin American comics scholarship to the English speaking world. The series includes monographs and themed anthologies. Comics Studies is a recently established and rapidly evolving field with much exciting research still to be done, and Routledge Advances in Comics Studies is dedicated to furthering the understanding of comics as an art form and a medium of communication.
Batman and the Multiplicity of Identity: The Contemporary Comic Book Superhero as Cultural Nexus
1st Edition
By Jeffrey A. Brown
September 30, 2020
Concentrating primarily on contemporary depictions of Batman in the comic books, this book analyzes why Batman is so immensely popular right now in America and globally, and how the fictional Dark Knight reveals both new cultural concerns and longstanding beliefs about American values. The ...
Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives
1st Edition
By Dominic Davies
September 30, 2020
Urban Comics: Infrastructure and the Global City in Contemporary Graphic Narratives makes an important and timely contribution both to comics studies and urban studies, offering a decolonisation and reconfiguration of both of these already interdisciplinary fields. With chapter-length discussions ...
Comics Studies Here and Now
1st Edition
Edited
By Frederick Luis Aldama
August 14, 2020
Comics Studies Here and Now marks the arrival of comics studies scholarship that no longer feels the need to justify itself within or against other fields of study. The essays herein move us forward, some in their re-diggings into comics history and others by analyzing comics—and all its ...
Empirical Comics Research: Digital, Multimodal, and Cognitive Methods
1st Edition
Edited
By Alexander Dunst, Jochen Laubrock, Janina Wildfeuer
August 14, 2020
This edited volume brings together work in the field of empirical comics research. Drawing on computer and cognitive science, psychology and art history, linguistics and literary studies, each chapter presents innovative methods and establishes the practical and theoretical motivations for the ...
Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation
1st Edition
Edited
By Wendy Haslem, Elizabeth MacFarlane, Sarah Richardson
June 30, 2020
Throughout the history of the genre, the superhero has been characterised primarily by physical transformation and physical difference. Superhero Bodies: Identity, Materiality, Transformation explores the transformation of the superhero body across multiple media forms including comics, film, ...
Superman and Comic Book Brand Continuity
1st Edition
By Phillip Bevin
June 30, 2020
Superman and Comic Book Brand Continuity traces the development of comic book continuity through the case study of Superman, examining the character’s own evolution across several media, including comics, radio, television, and film. Superman’s relationship with continuity illustrates a key feature...
The Modern Superhero in Film and Television: Popular Genre and American Culture
1st Edition
By Jeffrey A. Brown
December 12, 2019
Hollywood’s live-action superhero films currently dominate the worldwide box-office, with the characters enjoying more notoriety through their feature film and television depictions than they have ever before. This book argues that this immense popularity reveals deep cultural concerns about ...
The Narratology of Comic Art
1st Edition
By Kai Mikkonen
December 10, 2019
By placing comics in a lively dialogue with contemporary narrative theory, The Narratology of Comic Art builds a systematic theory of narrative comics, going beyond the typical focus on the Anglophone tradition. This involves not just the exploration of those properties in comics that can be ...
Reading Art Spiegelman
1st Edition
By Philip Smith
January 03, 2018
The horror of the Holocaust lies not only in its brutality but in its scale and logistics; it depended upon the machinery and logic of a rational, industrialised, and empirically organised modern society. The central thesis of this book is that Art Spiegelman’s comics all identify deeply-rooted ...