Young People, Comics and Reading - Exploring a Complex Reading Experience

Klappentext A case study of seventeen interviews with teens and young adults who describe themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. Zusammenfassung This Element is founded upon research conducted with seventeen teens and young adults who identify themselves as readers of comics for pleasure. These interviews provide insights about how comics reading evolves with the readers and their overall reading experience. Special attention is paid to the place of female readers in the comics community. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Situating this study: young people, reading practices and comics as reading material; 2. Readers and the comics community: what does it mean to be a comics reader?; 3. The reading experience: encountering comics as reading material; 4. The comics reading experience: beyond denigration, instrumentality and complacency; References.

Product details

• Authors: Lucia Cedeira Serantes, Lucia (Queens College Cedeira Serantes
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2019
• EAN: 9781108445344
• ISBN: 978-1-108-44534-4
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements: Publishing and Book; Elements: Publishing and Book; Elements in Publishing and Book Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > Other languages / Other literatures; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Journalism; Children's & teenage literature studies, Publishing industry & book trade, Children’s and teenage literature studies: general