世新大學圖書館

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Wordless comics: the imaginative appeal of Peter Kuper's The System / David Beronä -- Comics modes: caricature and illustration in the Crumb Family's Dirty Laundry / Joseph Witek -- Image functions: shape and color as hermeneutic images in Asterios Polyp / Randy Duncan -- Time and narrative: unity and discontinuity in The invisibles / Marc Singer -- Mise en scène and framing: visual storytelling in Lone Wolf and Cub / Pascal Lefèvre -- Abstract form: sequential dynamism and iconostasis in abstract comics and Steve Ditko's Amazing Spider-Man / Andrei Molotiu -- Philosophy: "the triumph of the human spirit" in X-men / Jeff McLaughlin -- Comics journalism: drawing on words to picture the past in Safe Area Goražde / Amy Kiste Nyberg -- Propaganda: the pleasures of persuasion in Captain America / Christopher Murray -- Political economy: manipulating demand and "The Death of Superman" / Mark Rogers -- Culture of consumption:commodification through Superman--return to Krypton / Ian Gordon -- Ethnography of production: editor Axel Alonso and the sale of ideas / Stanford W. Carpenter -- Auteur criticism: the re-visionary works of Alan Moore / Matthew J. Smith -- History: discovering the story of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster / Brad J. Ricca -- Genre: reconstructing the superhero in All star Superman / Peter Coogan -- Ideology: the construction of race and history in Tintin in the Congo / Leonard Rifas -- Feminism: second-wave feminism in the pages of Lois Lane / Jennifer K. Stuller -- Intertextuality: superrealist intertextualities in Max's Bardín / Ana Merino, translated by Elizabeth Polli -- Cultural studies: British girls' comics, readers and memories / Mel Gibson -- Ethnography: wearing one's fandom / Jeffrey A. Brown -- Critical tthnography: the comics shop as cultural clubhouse / Brian Swafford.