Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 537 g
Reihe: Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres
Comics and Graphic Novels
Buch, Englisch, Band 1, 244 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 537 g
Reihe: Critical Literacy Teaching Series: Challenging Authors and Genres
ISBN: 978-94-6091-360-0
Verlag: Brill Academic Publishers
With the rise of graphic novels in the mid-1980s and the adaptation of comics to films in the twenty-first century, comics and graphic novels have gained more respect as craft and text—called "sequential art" by foundational legend Will Eisner—but the genre/medium remains marginalized by educators, parents, and the public.
Challenging Genres: Comic Books and Graphic Novels offers educators, students, parents, and comic book readers and collectors a comprehensive exploration of comics/graphic novels as a challenging genre/medium.
This volume presents a history of comic books/graphic novels, an argument for valuing the genre/medium, and several chapters devoted to examining all subgenres of comics/graphic novels. Readers will discover key comics, graphic novels, and film adaptations suitable for the classroom—and for anyone serious about high quality texts. Further, this volume places comics/graphic novels within our growing understanding of multiliteracies and critical literacy.