Reading Comics - Language, Culture, and the Concept of the Superhero in Comic Books

First Published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

List of contents

Acknowledgments; Introduction; Chapter 1: Comics and Cultural Studies: Sites for Struggle; Chapter 2: Responses to Comicbooks and the Concept of the Popular; Chapter 3: On the Language of Comics and the Reading Process; Chapter 4: Superhero Comicbooks; Chapter 5: Factors that Changed Superhero Comicbooks; Chapter 6: Frank Miller's The Dark Knights Returns (1986); Chapter 7: A Glimpse at the Comics Scene after 1986; Index

About the author

Bongco, Mila

Summary

This book examines how the definition of the medium, as well as its language, readership, genre conventions and marketing and distribution have kept comic books within the realm of popular culture.

Product details

• Authors: Mila Bongco, Bongco Mila
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.05.2000
• EAN: 9780815333449
• ISBN: 978-0-8153-3344-9
• No. of pages: 252
• Weight: 630 g
• Series: Studies in American Popular History and Culture
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; Cultural Studies, DESIGN / Graphic Arts / Illustration, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Psycholinguistics, Comic book & cartoon art, Comic book and cartoon artwork, Psycholinguistics and cognitive linguistics