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Comics Memory
Despite the boom in scholarship in both Comics Studies and Memory Studies, the two fields rarely interact—especially with issues beyond the representation of traumatic and autobiographical memories in comics. With a focus on the roles played by styles and archives—in their physical and metaphorical manifestations—this edited volume offers an original intervention, highlighting several novel ways of thinking about comics and memory as comics memory. Bringing together scholars as well as cultural actors, the contributions combine studies on European and North American comics and offer a representative overview of the main comics genres and forms, including superheroes, Westerns, newspaper comics, diary comics, comics reportage and alternative comics. In considering the many manifestations of memory in comics as well as the functioning and influence of institutions, public and private practices, the book exemplifies new possibilities for understanding the complex entanglements of memory and comics.
New Approaches to Contemporary Adaptation
Scholars of cultural, gender, film, literary, and adaptation studies will find this collection innovative and thought-provoking.
The Whedonverse Catalog
Director, producer and screenwriter Joss Whedon is a creative force in film, television, comic books and a host of other media. This book provides an authoritative survey of all of Whedon's work, ranging from his earliest scriptwriting on Roseanne, through his many movie and TV undertakings--Toy Story, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Firefly/Serenity, Dr. Horrible, The Cabin in the Woods, and Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.--to his forays into the Marvel Cinematic Universe. The book covers both the original texts of the Whedonverse and the many secondary works focusing on Whedon's projects, including about 2000 books, essays, articles, documentaries and dissertations.
Adapting Spanish Classics for the New Millennium
The twenty-first-century's turn away from fidelity-based adaptations toward more innovative approaches has allowed adapters from Spain, Argentina, and the United States to draw upon Spain's rich body of nineteenth-century classics to address contemporary concerns about gender, sexuality, race, class, disability, celebrity, immigration, identity, social justice, and domestic violence. This book provides a snapshot of visual adaptations in the first two decades of the new millennium, examining how novelistic material from the past has been remediated for today's viewers through film, television, theater, opera, and the graphic novel. Its theoretical approach refines the binary view of adapters...
Spanish Comics
Spanish comics represent an exciting and diverse field, yet one that is often overlooked outside of Spain. Spanish Comics offers an overview on contemporary scholarship on Spanish comics, focusing on a wide range of comics dating from the Francoist dictatorship, 1939-1975; the Political Transition, 1970-1985; and Democratic Spain since the early 1980s including the emergence of the graphic novel in 2000. Touching on themes of memory, gender, regional identities, and history, the chapters in this collection demonstrate the historical and cultural significance of Spanish comics.
Spanish Graphic Narratives
Spanish Graphic Narratives examines the most recent thematic and critical developments in Spanish sequential art, with essays focusing on comics published in Spain since 2007. Considering Spain’s rich literary history, contentious Civil War (1936–39), oppressive Francisco Franco regime (1939–75), and progressive contemporary politics, both the recent graphic novel production in Spain and the thematic focal points of the essays here are greatly varied. Topics of particular interest include studies on the subject of historical and personal memory; representations of gender, race, and identity; and texts dealing with Spanish customs, traditions, and the current political situation in Spain. These overarching topics share many points of contact one with another, and this interrelationship (as well as the many points of divergence) is illustrative of the uniqueness, diversity, and paradoxes of literary and cultural production in modern-day Spain, thus illuminating our understanding of Spanish national consciousness in the present day.
Identité-altérité dans la culture hispanique au XXe-XXIe siècles
Interroger le concept d'identité en le mettant en rapport avec l'altérité renvoie à la célèbre formule de Rimbaud : "Je est un autre" qui, à la charnière des XXe et XXIe siècles, suscite toujours de nombreuses interrogations dans un monde où le moi est de plus en plus instable et en quête de repères, où l'identité se revendique le plus souvent au nom de la différence, que ce soit au niveau individuel ou communautaire. La culture hispanique de part et d'autre de l'Atlantique est particulièrement sensible à ces phénomènes et à l'évolution du rapport à l'autre qui peut créer des métissages culturels inédits. Ainsi, les nombreuses contributions du volume rendent-elles compte de la complexité et de l'intérêt d'un tel questionnement à travers une réflexion sur la langue, la littérature et les arts visuels sans oublier les bouleversements inter-relationnels générés par l'apparition d'Internet.
Ecriture et identités dans la nouvelle fiction romanesque
Les liens entre le littéraire et l'identitaire constituent le fil conducteur des travaux de spécialistes de différentes littératures des pays de langues romanes regroupés dans cet ouvrage. Ils interrogent la production romanesque actuelle (de 1980 à nos jours) tout en privilégiant la problématique identitaire et les rapports entre mémoire, histoire et fiction. Ainsi, cet ouvrage vise à établir un état des lieux de cette production à partir de paramètres formels et thématiques bien délimités.
