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![]() | A Comics Studies Reader ISBN: 9781617035500 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Alternative Comics: An Emerging Literature ISBN: 9781604735871 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Underground comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Anime’s Media Mix: Franchising Toys and Characters in Japan ISBN: 9780816680238 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Minnesota Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Character merchandising -- Japan; Character toys -- Japan; Cartoon characters -- Japan; Comic strip characters -- Japan; Animated television programs -- Japan -- History and criticism; Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism; Comic books strips ; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Arguing Comics: Literary Masters on a Popular Medium ISBN: 9781604735888 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Asian Comics ISBN: 9781626740853 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: HISTORY / Asia / General.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels.; Popular culture; Cartooning; Graphic novels; Comic books strips etc.; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Beyond Bombshells ISBN: 9781496803238 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: PERFORMING ARTS / Film & Video / History & Criticism.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Gender Studies.; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.; Heroines in literature.; Comic books strips etc.; Action and adventure films; Mass media and women.; Women heroes in motion pictures.; Wo; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Beyond Bombshells: The New Action Heroine in Popular Culture ISBN: 9781496803238 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Women heroes in literature; Women in popular culture; Women heroes in motion pictures; Mass media and women; Action and adventure films -- History and criticism; Comic books strips etc -- History and criticism; Heroines in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Black Superheroes, Milestone Comics, and Their Fans ISBN: 9781604737639 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; Afro-Americans -- Comic books strips etc.; Milestone Media Inc. -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Black Women in Sequence: Re-inking Comics, Graphic Novels, and Anime ISBN: 9780295806112 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Washington Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; African American women in literature; Africans in literature; Women in literature; Graphic novels -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Captain America and the Nationalist Superhero: Metaphors, Narratives, and Geopolitics ISBN: 9781439909782 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Superheroes in literature; Nationalism and literature; Geopolitics -- Social aspects; Popular culture -- Political aspects; America Captain (Fictitious character); ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Captain America, Masculinity, and Violence: The Evolution of a National Icon ISBN: 9780815653202 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Syracuse University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: America Captain (Fictitious character); Superheroes in literature; Masculinity in literature; Violence in literature; Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Comic Book Crime: Truth, Justice, and the American Way ISBN: 9780814762738 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Crime in literature; Justice in literature; Social values in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Comics and Language: Reimagining Critical Discourse on the Form ISBN: 9781621039556 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- Criticism Textual; Graphic novels -- History and criticism; Comic books strips etc. -- Authorship; Discourse analysis Literary; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Comics and Narration ISBN: 9781621039396 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric); ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Comics and the U.S. South ISBN: 9781617030192 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc -- History and criticism; Southern States -- In literature; Race in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Comics, Trauma, and the New Art of War ISBN: 9781496812506 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Graphic novels -- History and criticism; Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Psychic trauma in literature; War in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Contemporary Comics Storytelling ISBN: 9780803248502 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Nebraska Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Graphic novels -- History and criticism; Narration (Rhetoric); ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Dangerous Curves: Action Heroines, Gender, Fetishism, and Popular Culture ISBN: 9781604737158 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Women heroes in motion pictures; Heroines in literature; Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Women in popular culture; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Death, Disability, and the Superhero: Silver Age and Beyond ISBN: 9781626740655 Platform/Publisher: ACLS / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Ten pages at a time; Download: Ten pages at a time Subjects: Comic books strips etc -- History and criticism.; Death in literature.; People with disabilities in literature.; ■ Detailed Information (with preview link) | |
![]() | Demanding Respect: The Evolution of the American Comic Book ISBN: 9781592134441 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Temple University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Disaster Drawn: Visual Witness, Comics, and Documentary Form ISBN: 9780674495647 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc -- History and criticism; Nonfiction comics -- History and criticism; Graphic novels -- History and criticism; Psychic trauma in literature; Storytelling in literature; Narration (Rhetoric); ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Drawing on Tradition: Manga, Anime, and Religion in Contemporary Japan ISBN: 9780824865863 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism; Comic books strips etc. -- Religious aspects; Animated films -- Japan -- History and criticism; Animated films -- Religious aspects; Japan -- Religion -- 21st century; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Frank Miller's Daredevil and the Ends of Heroism ISBN: 9780813563831 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Miller Frank 1957– -- Criticism and interpretation; Daredevil (Fictitious character) -- History; Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; Popular culture -- United States; American literature -- History and criticism; Myth in; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Funny Girls: Guffaws, Guts, and Gender in Classic American Comics ISBN: 9781496820785 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Girls -- Comic books strips etc.; Comic strip characters -- Women; Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Funnybooks: The Improbable Glories of the Best American Comic Books ISBN: 9780520960022 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | God of Comics: Osamu Tezuka and the Creation of Post-World War II Manga ISBN: 9781604734782 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Tezuka Osamu 1928–1989 -- Criticism and interpretation; Comic books strips etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Gothicka: Vampire Heroes, Human Gods, and the New Supernatural ISBN: 9780674065406 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Gothic fiction (Literary genre) -- History and criticism; Gothic revival (Literature) -- History and criticism; Horror tales -- History and criticism; Spirituality in literature; Horror films -- History and criticism; Horror comic books strips etc -- Hi; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics ISBN: 9781617031373 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Morrison Grant -- Criticism and interpretation; Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Graphic Novels as Philosophy ISBN: 9781496813312 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Graphic novels -- History and criticism; Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Literature -- Philosophy; Philosophy in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Hellboy's World: Comics and Monsters on the Margins ISBN: 9780520963108 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Mignola Michael -- Criticism and interpretation; Hellboy (Fictitious character : Mignola); Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | History and Politics in French-Language Comics and Graphic Novels ISBN: 9781604737615 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- Europe French-speaking -- History and criticism; History in literature; Politics in literature; History in art; Politics in art; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Incorrigibles and Innocents: Constructing Childhood and Citizenship in Progressive Era Comics ISBN: 9780813591803 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; Children in literature; Citizenship in literature; Literature and society -- United States -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Lalo Alcaraz: Political Cartooning in the Latino Community ISBN: 9781496811417 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Alcaraz Lalo -- Criticism and interpretation; Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; American literature -- Mexican American authors -- History and criticism; Political cartoons -- United States -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Manga from the Floating World: Comicbook Culture and the Kibyōshi of Edo Japan, Second Edition ISBN: 9781684176083 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Harvard University Asia Center Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Kusazōshi; Comic books strips etc. -- Japan; Japanese fiction -- Edo period 1600–1868 -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Ms. Marvel's America: No Normal ISBN: 9781496827067 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Khan Kamala (Fictitious character); Marvel Ms. (Fictitious character); Comic books strips etc -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Passionate Friendship: The Aesthetics of Girls' Culture in Japan ISBN: 9780824861117 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism; Teenage girls -- Books and reading -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Teenage girls in popular culture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Redrawing the Historical Past: History, Memory, and Multiethnic Graphic Novels ISBN: 9780820352022 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Graphic novels -- History and criticism; History in literature; Memory in literature; Minorities in literature; Ethnicity in literature; Narration (Rhetoric) -- Social aspects; Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Serial Selves: Identity and Representation in Autobiographical Comics ISBN: 9780813592282 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Autobiographical comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Self-perception in art; Narrative art -- Themes motives; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Straight from the Heart: Gender, Intimacy, and the Cultural Production of Shōjo Manga ISBN: 9780824860578 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Hawai''i Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- Japan -- History and criticism; Girls -- Books and reading -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Girls in popular culture -- Japan -- History -- 20th century; Women in the book industries and trade -- Japan -- History -- 20th c; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Superman: The Persistence of an American Icon ISBN: 9780813587547 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Rutgers University Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Superman (Fictitious character); Superman (Comic strip); Superheroes -- Social aspects; Heroes in mass media; Myth in mass media; Popular culture -- United States -- History; Comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Canadian Alternative: Cartoonists, Comics, and Graphic Novels ISBN: 9781496815156 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- Canada -- History and criticism; Graphic novels -- Canada -- History and criticism; Underground comic books strips etc -- Canada; Cartoonists -- Canada -- Biography; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The New Mutants: Superheroes and the Radical Imagination of American Comics ISBN: 9781479840021 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc -- United States -- History and criticism; Superheroes in literature; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Origins of Comics ISBN: 9781621039921 Platform/Publisher: Project MUSE / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: Unlimited; Printing: Chapters; Download: Chapters Subjects: ART / History / Modern (late 19th Century to 1945).; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture.; LITERARY CRITICISM / Comics & Graphic Novels.; Comic books strips etc.; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Origins of Comics: From William Hogarth to Winsor McCay ISBN: 9781621039921 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Phantom Unmasked: America's First Superhero ISBN: 9781609385019 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Iowa Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Phantom (Fictitious character); Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Superheroes; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Poetics of Slumberland: Animated Spirits and the Animating Spirit ISBN: 9780520951501 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of California Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Fantastic The in art; Fantasy in motion pictures; Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Animated films -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The Superhero Reader ISBN: 9781621039549 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc -- History and criticism; Superheroes in literature; Superheroes; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | The System of Comics ISBN: 9781604736939 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University Press of Mississippi Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc. -- History and criticism; Semiotics; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture ISBN: 9781479851584 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / NYU Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Pornography -- Social aspects -- United States; Erotic comic books strips etc. -- United States -- History and criticism; Obscenity (Law) -- United States; Censorship -- United States; Words Obscene -- Humor; American fiction -- 20th century -- History; ■ Detailed Information | |
![]() | Unpopular Culture: Transforming the European Comic Book in the 1990s ISBN: 9781442656727 Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Toronto Press Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter Subjects: Comic books strips etc -- Europe -- History and criticism; ■ Detailed Information |