Informationen zum Autor Mark Berninger teaches in the department of English at Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany. He has published widely on contemporary drama and comics. Jochen Ecke is a lecturer at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. He has published extensively on popular culture, particularly U.S. and British mainstream comic books. Gideon Haberkorn is in the department of English and Linguistics British Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat in Mainz, Germany. Klappentext These 19 essays from various critical disciplines examine how comic books and graphic narratives move between various media, while merging youth and adult cultures and popular and high art. The articles feature international perspectives on comics and graphic novels published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, India, and Japan. Topics range from film adaptation, to journalism in comics, to the current manga boom. Zusammenfassung Examines how comic books and graphic narratives move between various media! while merging youth and adult cultures and popular and high art. The essays feature international perspectives on comics and graphic novels published in the US! Canada! the UK! Portugal! Germany! Turkey! India! and Japan. Topics range from film adaptation! to journalism in comics! to the current manga boom. Inhaltsverzeichnis Table of ContentsIntroduction INTERMEDIAL1. Spatializing the Movie Screen: How Mainstream Cinema Is Catching Up on the Formal Potentialities of the Comic Book Page Jochen Ecke2. The Marvel Universe on Screen: A New Wave of Superhero Movies? Andreas Rauscher3. From Trauma Victim to Terrorist: Redefining Superheroes in Post-9/11 Hollywood Dan A. Hassler-Forest4. "Picture This": Disease and Autobiographic Narration in the Graphic Novels of David B and Julie Doucet Jonas Engelmann5. Novel-Based Comics Paul Ferstl6. In the Art of the Beholder: Comics as Political Journalism Dirk VanderbekeINTERNATIONAL7. The Carrefour of Practice: Québec BD in Transition Michel Hardy-Vallée8. The Use of Allusion in Apitz and Kunkel's Karl Comics Sandra Martina Schwab9. Cultural Specifics of a Scottish Comic: Oor Wullie Anne Hoyer10. Memento Mori: A Portuguese Style of Melancholy Mario Gomes and Jan Peuckert11. Otherness and the European as Villain and Antihero in American Comics Georg Drennig12. 2000AD: Understanding the "British Invasion" of American Comics Ben Little13. Whatever Happened to All the Heroes? British Perspectives on Superheroes Karin Kukkonen and Anja Müller-Wood14. A Cornerstone of Turkish Fantastic Films: From Flash Gordon to Baytekin Meral Özç nar15. From Capes to Snakes: The Indianization of the American Superhero Suchitra Mathur16. The Roving Eye Meets Traveling Pictures: The Field of Vision and the Global Rise of Adult Manga Holger Briel17. Kawaii vs. Rorikon: The Reinvention of the Term Lolita in Modern Japanese Manga Dinah Zank18. Mangascape Germany: Comics as Intercultural Neutral Ground Paul M. MaloneINTERDISCIPLINARY19. Workshop I: Toward a Toolbox of Comics Studies Karin Kukkonen and Gideon Haberkorn20. Workshop II: Comics in School Mark Berninger21. Workshop III: Teaching Comics and Literary Studies-Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Mark Berninger22. Workshop IV: Teaching Comics and Film Studies-Ang Lee's The Hulk (USA 2003) Andreas Rauscher23. Comic Linguistics: Comics and Cartoons in Academic Teaching Christina SanchezAbout the Contributors Index ...

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Mark Berninger teaches in the department of English at Otto-Friedrich University in Bamberg, Germany. He has published widely on contemporary drama and comics. Jochen Ecke is a lecturer at the University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany. He has published extensively on popular culture, particularly U.S. and British mainstream comic books.Gideon Haberkorn is in the department of English and Linguistics British Studies at Johannes Gutenberg-Universitat in Mainz, Germany.

Klappentext
These 19 essays from various critical disciplines examine how comic books and graphic narratives move between various media, while merging youth and adult cultures and popular and high art. The articles feature international perspectives on comics and graphic novels published in the U.S., Canada, Great Britain, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, India, and Japan. Topics range from film adaptation, to journalism in comics, to the current manga boom.

Zusammenfassung
Examines how comic books and graphic narratives move between various media, while merging youth and adult cultures and popular and high art. The essays feature international perspectives on comics and graphic novels published in the US, Canada, the UK, Portugal, Germany, Turkey, India, and Japan. Topics range from film adaptation, to journalism in comics, to the current manga boom.

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Table of Contents

Introduction

INTERMEDIAL

1. Spatializing the Movie Screen: How Mainstream Cinema Is Catching Up on the Formal Potentialities of the Comic Book Page
   Jochen Ecke
2. The Marvel Universe on Screen: A New Wave of Superhero Movies?
   Andreas Rauscher
3. From Trauma Victim to Terrorist: Redefining Superheroes in Post-9/11 Hollywood
   Dan A. Hassler-Forest
4. "Picture This": Disease and Autobiographic Narration in the Graphic Novels of David B and Julie Doucet
   Jonas Engelmann
5. Novel-Based Comics
   Paul Ferstl
6. In the Art of the Beholder: Comics as Political Journalism
   Dirk Vanderbeke

INTERNATIONAL
7. The Carrefour of Practice: Québec BD in Transition
Michel Hardy-Vallée
8. The Use of Allusion in Apitz and Kunkel's Karl Comics
Sandra Martina Schwab
9. Cultural Specifics of a Scottish Comic: Oor Wullie
Anne Hoyer
10. Memento Mori: A Portuguese Style of Melancholy
Mario Gomes and Jan Peuckert
11. Otherness and the European as Villain and Antihero in American Comics
Georg Drennig
12. 2000AD: Understanding the "British Invasion" of American Comics
Ben Little
13. Whatever Happened to All the Heroes? British Perspectives on Superheroes
Karin Kukkonen and Anja Müller-Wood
14. A Cornerstone of Turkish Fantastic Films: From Flash Gordon to Baytekin
Meral Özç nar
15. From Capes to Snakes: The Indianization of the American Superhero
Suchitra Mathur
16. The Roving Eye Meets Traveling Pictures: The Field of Vision and the Global Rise of Adult Manga
Holger Briel
17. Kawaii vs. Rorikon: The Reinvention of the Term Lolita in Modern Japanese Manga
Dinah Zank
18. Mangascape Germany: Comics as Intercultural Neutral Ground
Paul M. Malone

INTERDISCIPLINARY
19. Workshop I: Toward a Toolbox of Comics Studies
Karin Kukkonen and Gideon Haberkorn
20. Workshop II: Comics in School
Mark Berninger
21. Workshop III: Teaching Comics and Literary Studies-Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess' "A Midsummer Night's Dream"
Mark Berninger
22. Workshop IV: Teaching Comics and Film Studies-Ang Lee's The Hulk (USA 2003)
Andreas Rauscher
23. Comic Linguistics: Comics and Cartoons in Academic Teaching
Christina Sanchez

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