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Contexts of Violence in Comics (Routledge Advances in Comics Studies)

Contexts of Violence in Comics (Routledge Advances in Comics Studies)

by Ian Hague (Editor), Ian Horton (Editor), Nina Mickwitz (Editor)

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    Illustrated 2019

    $192.97
Synopsis

This book asks the reader to consider the ways in which violence and its representations may be enabled or restricted by the contexts in which they take place. It analyzes how structures and organising principles, be they political, cultural, religious, legal or historical, might encourage, demand or prevent violence. It also deals with the issue of scale: violence in the context of war versus violence in the context of an individual murder. It provides insights into violence in comics in the context of war and peace; ethnic, religious and identity-based violence; as well as the legal and historical contexts of violence. Together with Representing Acts of Violence in Comics, it offers a nuanced examination of the ways in which violence in comics is presented in different texts, genres, cultures and contexts.

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More Information

Format: Illustrated
 Pages: 204
 Edition: 1
 Publisher: Routledge
Published: 01 May 2019
ISBN 10: 1138484504
ISBN 13: 9781138484504

Media Reviews

'This book brings new and wide-ranging perspectives from outstanding scholars to an area of comics that critical discourse has tended to shy away from: violence, whether flamboyantly exaggerated, or painfully recovered and made visible.' -Ann Miller, University Fellow, University of Leicester, UK

Author Bio
Ian Hague is a Coordinator and Senior Lecturer in Contextual and Theoretical Studies at London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London. He is the author of Comics and the Senses: A Multisensory Approach to Comics and Graphic Novels and the co-editor of Representing Multiculturalism in Comics and Graphic Novels, as well as the founder and director of Comics Forum, an academic organisation dedicated to the production and dissemination of comics scholarship (www.comicsforum.org). He can be found online at www.ianhague.com and on Twitter@drianhague. Ian Horton is Reader in Graphic Communication at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London. He is Associate Editor of the Journal of Graphic Novels and Comics and has published work on: oral history and text-based public art; colonialist stereotypes in European and British comic books; the relationship between art history and comics studies. Nina Mickwitz is a media and cultural studies researcher and lecturer in the Design School at London College of Communication. She has been a co-organiser of the annual Transitions Comics Studies symposium at Birkbeck College in London since 2011. Her monograph, Documentary Comics: graphic truth-telling in a skeptical age, is published by Palgrave Macmillan (2016).