More Critical Approaches to Comics

<p>In this comprehensive textbook, editors Matthew J. Brown, Randy Duncan, and Matthew J. Smith offer students a deeper understanding of the artistic and cultural significance of comic books and graphic novels by introducing key theories and critical methods for analyzing comics. </p><p>Each chapter explains and then demonstrates a critical method or approach, which students can then apply to interrogate and critique the meanings and forms of comic books, graphic novels, and other sequential art. Contributors introduce a wide range of critical perspectives on comics, including disability studies, parasocial relationships, scientific humanities, queer theory, linguistics, critical geography, philosophical aesthetics, historiography, and much more. </p><p>As a companion to the acclaimed <i>Critical Approaches to Comics: Theories and Methods</i>, this second volume features 19 fresh perspectives and serves as a stand-alone textbook in its own right. <i>More Critical Approaches to Comics</i> is a compelling classroom or research text for students and scholars interested in Comics Studies, Critical Theory, the Humanities, and beyond.</p> <p><strong>Part 1: Viewpoints </strong> 1. Critical Theory 2. Postcolonial Theory 3. Critical Race Theory 4. Queer Theory 5. Disability Studies 6. Critical Geography 7. Utopianism <b>Part 2: Expression </b>8. New Criticism 9. Psychoanalytic Criticism 10. Autographics 11. Linguistics 12. Philosophical Aesthetics 13. Burkean Dramatistic Analysis <b>Part 3: Relationships </b>14. Adaptation 15. Transmedia Storytelling 16. Parasocial Relationship Analysis 17. Historiography 18. Bakhtinian Dialogics 19. Scientific Humanities</p>