TY  - BOOK
AU  - Babic,Annessa Ann
TI  - Comics as history, comics as literature: roles of the comic book in scholarship, society, and entertainment 
SN  - 9781611475562
AV  - PN6714 .C653 2014
PY  - 2014///]
CY  - Madison
PB  - Fairleigh Dickinson University Press
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc
KW  - Influence on mass media
KW  - Cross-cultural studies
KW  - Comic books, strips, etc., in education
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; -- Acknowledgments; -- Introduction: France, The Second Comics Market; -- Antiquity and Bandes Dessinees: Schizophrenic Nationalism Between Atlanticism and Marxism; / Henri-Simon Blanc-Hoang; -- Did You Learn Your Strip?: The History of France as Comic Fad in the 1970s; / Guillaume de Syon; -- "Ils sont fous ces Gaulois!": Asterix, Lucky Luke, Freedom Fries, and the Love-Hate Relationship Between France and the United States; / Annick Pellegrin; -- Nation and Revolution; -- Image and Text in Service of the Nation: Historically-themed Comic Books as Civic Education in 1980s Mexico; / Melanie Huska; -- Images of US Wars; -- Who is Diana Prince?: The Amazon Army Nurse of World War II; / Peter Lee; -- Wonder Woman as Patriotic Icon: The Amazon Princess for the Nation and Femininity; / Annessa Ann Babic; -- Comic Containment: No Laughing Matter; / James C. Lethbridge; -- Graphic-Narrative-History: Defining the Essential Experience(s) of 9/11; / Lynda Goldstein; -- Morals, Ethics, and Race; -- Super Gay!: Depictions of Homosexuality in Mainstream Superhero Comics; / Kara M. Kvaran; -- The Man in the Gray Metal Suit: Dr. Doom, the Fantastic Four, and the Costs of Conformity; / Micah Rueber; -- Seen City: Frank Miller's Re-Imaging as a Cinematic "New Real"; / Christina Dokou; -- Dark Logic; -- The Zombie Apocalypse: A Fictional State of Nature?; / Faiz Sheikh; -- Logicomix and the Enunciatory Apparatus; / Beatrice Skordili; -- Works Cited; -- Index; -- About the Contributors
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