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The Us Graphic Novel - (Critical Insights in American Studies) by Paul Williams (Paperback)
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Highlights
- This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics.
- About the Author: Paul Williams is Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter.
- 272 Pages
- Literary Criticism, American
- Series Name: Critical Insights in American Studies
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About the Book
Provides a history of US graphic novels from the 1910s to the present.
Book Synopsis
This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. The US Graphic Novel pays particular attention to how the concept of the graphic novel developed through the twentieth century. Art historians, journalists, and reviewers debated whether it was possible for a comic to be a novel - debates that accelerated after the term 'graphic novel' was coined by the comics fan Richard Kyle in 1964. This study underlines the proximity of the graphic novel to other media, showing that this cultural form is not only the meeting place between periodical comics and books, but that graphic novels are in dialogue with films, posters and computer screens.
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Provides a history of US graphic novels from the 1910s to the present This book analyses the way that changes in the comics industry, book trade and webcomics distribution have shaped the publication of long-form comics. The US Graphic Novel pays particular attention to how the concept of the graphic novel developed through the twentieth century. Art historians, journalists, and reviewers debated whether it was possible for a comic to be a novel - debates that accelerated after the term 'graphic novel' was coined by the comics fan Richard Kyle in 1964. This study underlines the proximity of the graphic novel to other media, showing that this cultural form is not only the meeting place between periodical comics and books, but that graphic novels are in dialogue with films, posters and computer screens. Key Features: - Emphasises the relationship between comics and other media - Explains the role that fans, reviewers and critics have played in constructing the concept of a comic that is also a novel - Substantively covers the pre-1980s history of the graphic novel - Suitable as secondary reading on taught undergraduate and postgraduate courses - Written in an accessible manner with key terms explained when first used - Provides analyses of Lynd Ward's Gods' Man, Samuel R. Delany and Howard Chaykin's Empire, Art Spiegelman's Maus, Alison Bechdel's Fun Home and Jeremy Love's Bayou Paul Williams is Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Film at the University of Exeter.Review Quotes
In this masterful follow-up to Dreaming the Graphic Novel (2020), Paul Williams illuminates the graphic novel as a form that lives at the borders of various media forms, incorporating aspects of some and rewiring others to create something that is simultaneously new even as it illuminates the media forms of our past.--Jared Gardner, The Ohio State University
About the Author
Paul Williams is Associate Professor of Twentieth-Century Literature and Culture in the Department of English and Creative Writing at the University of Exeter. He has previously published three books: Dreaming the Graphic Novel (Rutgers UP, 2020), Paul Gilroy (Routledge, 2012), and Race, Ethnicity and Nuclear War (Liverpool UP, 2011), and he co-edited the collection The Rise of the American Comics Artist (UP of Mississippi, 2010) with James Lyons.