The Comics of Joe Sacco: Journalism in a Visual World Contributor(s): Worden, Daniel (Editor) |
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ISBN: 1496814703 ISBN-13: 9781496814708 Publisher: University Press of Mississippi OUR PRICE: $34.65 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 2017 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | Comics & Graphic Novels - Social Science | Popular Culture - Biography & Autobiography | Artists, Architects, Photographers |
Dewey: 741.509 |
Series: Critical Approaches to Comics Artists |
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 6" W x 9" (0.96 lbs) 294 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Named a Notable Scholarly Publication of 2015 by the Comics Studies Society Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Lan Dong, Ann D'Orazio, Kevin C. Dunn, Alexander Dunst, Jared Gardner, Edward C. Holland, Isabel Macdonald, Brigid Maher, Ben Owen, Rebecca Scherr, Maureen Shay, Marc Singer, Richard Todd Stafford, and yvind Vågnes The Comics of Joe Sacco addresses the range of his award-winning work, from his early comics stories as well as his groundbreaking journalism Palestine (1993) and Safe Area to Gorazde (2000), to Footnotes in Gaza (2009) and his most recent book The Great War (2013), a graphic history of World War I. First in the series, Critical Approaches to Comics Artists, this edited volume explores Sacco's comics journalism and features established and emerging scholars from comics studies, cultural studies, geography, literary studies, political science, and communication studies. Sacco's work has already found a place in some of the foundational scholarship in comics studies, and this book solidifies his role as one of the most important comics artists today. Sections focus on how Sacco's comics journalism critiques and employs the standard of objectivity in mainstream reporting, what aesthetic principles and approaches to lived experience can be found in his comics, how Sacco employs the space of the comics page to map history and war, and the ways that his comics function in the classroom and as human rights activism. The Comics of Joe Sacco offers definitive, exciting approaches to some of the most important--and necessary--comics today, by one of the most acclaimed journalist-artists of our time. |
Contributor Bio(s): Worden, Daniel: - Daniel Worden, Rochester, New York, teaches in the School of Individualized Study at the Rochester Institute of Technology. He is the author of Masculine Style: The American West and Literary Modernism and the coeditor of Oil Culture and Postmodern/Postwar--and After: Rethinking American Literature. |