Comics as Philosophy - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 1604730005 ISBN 13: 9781604730005

Casa editrice: University Press of Mississippi, 2007

Riassunto

Contributions by Jeremy Barris, Laura Canis and Paul Canis, Stanford W. Carpenter, Kevin de Laplante, Robert C. Harvey, Terry Kading, Jeff McLaughlin, Amy Kiste Nyberg, Aldo Regalado, Pierre Skilling, and Iain Thomson

Through the combination of text and images, comic books offer a unique opportunity to explore deep questions about aesthetics, ethics, and epistemology in nontraditional ways. The essays in this collection focus on a wide variety of genres, from mainstream superhero comics, to graphic novels of social realism, to European adventure classics.

Included among the contributions are essays on existentialism in Daniel Clowes's graphic novel Ghost World, ecocriticism in Paul Chadwick's long-running Concrete series, and political philosophies in Hergé's perennially popular The Adventures of Tintin. Modern political concerns inform Terry Kading's discussion of how superhero comics have responded to 9/11 and how the genre reflects the anxieties of the contemporary world.

Essayists also explore the issues surrounding the development and appreciation of comics. Amy Kiste Nyberg examines the rise of the Comics Code, using it as a springboard for discussing the ethics of censorship and child protection in America. Stanford W. Carpenter uses interviews to analyze how a team of Marvel artists and writers reimagined the origin of one of Marvel's most iconic superheroes, Captain America. Throughout, essayists in Comics as Philosophy show how well the form can be used by its artists and its interpreters as a means of philosophical inquiry.

Su questo libro

L'autore:

Jeff McLaughlin is full professor of philosophy at Thompson Rivers University in Kamloops, British Columbia. He is editor of Graphic Novels as Philosophy and Stan Lee: Conversations, both published by University Press of Mississippi.

Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

An inventive anthology that uses comics to explore the tenets of philosophy

Su questa edizione

• Editore: University Press of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2007
• ISBN 10: 1604730005
• ISBN 13: 9781604730005
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 268
• Redattore: Mclaughlin Jeff