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Titre(s) : The other 1980s [Texte imprimé] : reframing comics' crucial decade / edited by Brannon Costello & Brian Cremins

Publication : Baton Rouge (États-Unis) : Louisiana State University press, 2021

Description matérielle : 1 vol. (VI-355 p.) : ill. ; 24 cm

Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index"Fans and scholars have long regarded the 1980s as a significant turning point in the history of comics in the U.S. The decade saw titles such as Art Spiegelman's "Maus", Frank Miller's "Batman: The Dark Knight Returns", and Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons's "Watchmen" celebrated by both readers and critics alike, even attracting the attention of prominent publications including the "New York Times," the "Atlantic," and "Rolling Stone." Three decades later, most of the critical discussion of the period still focuses on these three books and their creators, eclipsing the work of others who also played a key role in shaping comics as we know them today. With twenty essays covering a diverse array of material, "The Other 1980s: Reframing Comics' Crucial Decade" offers a more complicated and multivalent picture of this remarkably robust era of ambitious comics publishing. Many of the works considered in this volume were hailed as innovative and groundbreaking in their day, but they have fallen to the wayside, in some cases because they do not easily square with the dominant tendencies in comics studies. Instead, "The Other 1980s" illuminates works that prove far more unwieldy, though no less interesting: open-ended serials that do not translate neatly to the graphic novel format beloved by literature departments; sprawling superhero narratives with no connection to corporate superhero universes; offbeat and abandoned experiments by major publishers, including Marvel and DC, to reach new audiences; idiosyncratic and experimental independent comics; unusual genre exercises filtered through deeply personal sensibilities; and oft-neglected offshoots of the classic "underground" comics movement of the 1960s and 1970s. The contributors also offer original and enlightening examinations of the ways in which the fans and critics of the day engaged with creators and publishers and laid the groundwork for much of the contemporary critical and academic discourse on comics. By uncovering comics and creators long ignored by comics studies, "The Other 1980s" offers a more nuanced understanding of the context from which the iconic works of the 1980s emerged and revises conventional histories of this major period in comics"

Autre(s) auteur(s) : Costello, Brannon (1975-....). Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur Cremins, Brian. Éditeur scientifique  Voir les notices liées en tant qu'auteur

Sujet(s) : Bandes dessinées -- États-Unis -- 1945-1990  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Indice(s) Dewey :  741.597 3 (23e éd.) = Albums de bande dessinée, romans graphiques, romans-photos, dessins humoristiques, caricatures, bandes dessinées - États-Unis  Voir les notices liées en tant que sujet

Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9780807171332 (rel.). - ISBN 0807171336. - ISBN 9780807174777. - ISBN 0807174777. - ISBN 9780807175507 (erroné). - ISBN 9780807175514 (erroné)

Identifiant de la notice  : ark:/12148/cb47076983b

Notice n° :  FRBNF47076983 (notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)

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Table des matières : Introduction. "avenues of free thought and fellow feeling": U.S. comic books in the 1980s / Brannon Costello and Brian Cremins ; Part I. The new wave: crucial writers, artists, and titles. Delayed recognition: Wendy and Richard Pini's Elfquest / Isabelle Licari-Guillaume ; Lords, masters, aces, and knights: Doug Moench and the advancement of comics in the 1980s / Andrew J. Kunka ; Neil the horse and the suppressed comics memory: dolls, funny animals, and entertainment work / Maaheen Ahmed ; The circles in the squares: analogic thinking in P. Craig Russell's Salomé and Pelléas and Mélisande / Shiamin Kwa ; Part II. "Gerbils, geckos, and wharf rats": or, publishers, properties, and capitalism. Making graphic novels in the early direct market: eclipse enterprises and Steve Gerber's Stewart the rat / Paul Williams ; "Entertainment should be an adventure": Reggie Byers, Shuriken, and the black-and-white boom / Brian Cremins ; Another toy story: the micronauts, rom, and capitalist epic / Andrew Hoberek ; Part III. "The sense of the everyday": Rethinking gender, race, and sexuality. Graphic representations of "Vietnam syndrome": race and masculinity in the 'Nam and real war stories / Meg King ; For shame? Wimmen's comix redux and Dori Seda's lonely nights / James Ziegler ; "Hysteria, the other AIDS epidemic": strips AIDS USA, HIV, and the narrative of respectability / Alex B. Smith ; Part IV. A real American hero? Adventures in politics, comedy, and regionalism. "Shades and light": representational paradox and Tim Truman's Scout Saga / Jeremy M. Carnes ; The lark/light returns: DC's humorous heroes in the 1980s / Blair Davis ; "Where is my soil?" Ms. Mystic in the Anthropocene / Jose Alaniz ; Metropolis in Dixie: race, liberty, and the Atlanta of southern knights / Brannon Costello ; Part V. "A small step toward that Utopian dream": communities of readers. Robo-texts and mecha-morphs: the rise of robotech, the coming of comico, and the transmedial joys of the 1980s "Japanimated" explosion / Jonathan Alexandratos and Daniel F. Yezbick ; "Always another rainbow": fans, comics publishing, and the return of Donald Duck / Peter Cullen Bryan ; The crusade of the Comics Journal / Robert Hutton ; Revolution girl style later: intergeneration feminisms and the second life of wimmen's comix in the 1980s / Rachel R. Miller ; Amethyst, Meet Misty, and Angel Love: historical footnotes or paths not taken? / Aaron Kashtan.

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