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Imprint:	Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. 2022.
Description:	1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations (some color)
Language:	English
Series:	Comics Studies Comics Studies ; v.1
Subject:	Comic books, strips, etc. -- Authorship. Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects. Comic books, strips, etc. -- History and criticism. Comic books, strips, etc. Comic books, strips, etc. -- Authorship. Comic books, strips, etc. -- Social aspects. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Comics criticism.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/13531280

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Other authors / contributors:	Ossa, Vanessa, editor. Thon, Jan-Noël, editor. Wilde, Lukas R. A., editor.
ISBN:	9783110754483 3110754487 9783110754407 3110754401
Notes:	Open Access Unrestricted online access Print version record.
Summary:	"This volume aims to intensify the interdisciplinary dialogue on comics and related popular multimodal forms (including manga, graphic novels, and cartoons) by focusing on the concept of medial, mediated, and mediating agency. To this end, a theoretically and methodologically diverse set of contributions explores the interrelations between individual, collective, and institutional actors within historical and contemporary comics cultures. Agency is at stake when recipients resist hegemonic readings of multimodal texts. In the same manner, 'authorship' can be understood as the attribution of agency of and between various medial instances and roles such as writers, artists, colorists, letterers, or editors, as well as with regard to commercial rights holders such as publishing houses or conglomerates and reviewers or fans. From this perspective, aspects of comics production (authorship and institutionalization) can be related to aspects of comics reception (appropriation and discursivation), and circulation (participation and canonization), including their potential for transmedialization and making contributions to the formation of the public sphere"
Other form:	Print version: Comics and agency. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter & Co. 2022 9783110754407

Table of Contents:

Introduction / Vanessa Ossa ; Jan-Noël Thon ; Lukas R. A. Wilde
What we do with comics: the agency of collectors in Dylan Horrock's Hicksville / Henry Jenkins
Tintin's global journey: editors as invisible actors behind the comics industry of the 1960s / Jessica Burton
How a German publisher appropriates comics it did not originally publish / Romain Becker
The agents of doom: an empirical approach to transmedia actors / Mark Hibbett
Agency in the making: distribution and publication as topics in Nikolas Mahler's Die Goldgruber Chroniken and the anthology Drawn & Quarterly / Barbara Margarethe Eggert
Comics artist versus artistic genius: Kverneland and Fiske's approach to artists, metafiction, and allusion to contemporary sources in kanon / Laura Glötter
Death of the endless and fan projections / Ashumi Shah ; Anke Marie Bock-- "I always win": corporate comics, delinquent fans, and the body of Richard C. Meyer / Christopher Pizzino
Pilgrimage to Hall H: fan agency at Comic-Con / Matthew J. Smith
Librarians, agency, young people, and comics: graphic account and the development of graphic novel collections in libraries in Britain in the 1990s/ Mel Gibson
Learning from pupils about conviviality / Cathérine Lehnerer
Ada in the jungle and Aya of Yop City: negotiating "Africa" in comics / Jörn Ahrens
Telling stories with photo archives: intermedial agency in documentary comics / Greice Schneider-- Who controls the speech bubbles? Reflecting on agency in comic-games / Hans-Joachim Backe.

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