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Breaking the Frames: Populism and Prestige in Comics Studies

Contributor(s): Singer, Marc (Author)

ISBN: 9781477317105

Publisher: University of Texas Press

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Pub Date: January 21, 2019

Dewey: 741.59

LCCN: 2017054496

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Index, Price on Product

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 0.90" H x 8.90" L x 6.00" W ( 1.00 lbs) 312 pages

Series: World Comics and Graphic Nonfiction

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Description: Challenging common critical practices and offering new interpretations of canonical texts by Marjane Satrapi, Alan Moore, Kyle Baker, Chris Ware, and others, this volume offers the first major critique of the field of comics studies.

Brief description: Marc Singer is an associate professor of English at Howard University. He is the author of Grant Morrison: Combining the Worlds of Contemporary Comics and the coeditor of Detective Fiction in a Postcolonial and Transnational World.

Review Quotes: I have greatly enjoyed grappling with Marc's rigorous and unrelenting work...I both thoroughly enjoyed reading and enjoyed discussing [Breaking the Frames] with others.-- "The Middle Spaces" (3/12/2019 12:00:00 AM)

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