Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books
Critical Approaches to Horror Comic Books by John Darowski, published by Taylor & Francis on August 16, 2022, is a comprehensive exploration of the intersection between horror comic books and the social and cultural anxieties of various eras and regions. This 268-page volume addresses academic gaps in the scholarship surrounding comics, presenting interdisciplinary insights through the lenses of Marxism, posthumanism, and various theories including sociology and psychology.
Readers will find a collection of chapters that engage with both mainstream and independent horror comics, offering critical examinations of works from countries such as India, France, Spain, Italy, Japan, and the United States. The book includes case studies that highlight under-studied areas within the genre, making it a valuable resource for scholars and students in fields such as visual rhetoric, media studies, and popular culture. Additionally, it serves as an informative text for anyone interested in the complexities of horror within comic books.
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This volume explores how horror comic books have negotiated with the social and cultural anxieties framing a specific era and geographical space. Paying attention to academic gaps in comics’ scholarship, these chapters engage with the study of comics from varying interdisciplinary perspectives, such as Marxism; posthumanism; and theories of adaptation, sociology, existentialism, and psychology. Without neglecting the classical era, the book presents case studies ranging from the mainstream comics to the independents, simultaneously offering new critical insights on zones of vacancy within the study of horror comic books while examining a global selection of horror comics from countries such as India (City of Sorrows), France (Zombillénium), Spain (Creepy), Italy (Dylan Dog), and Japan (Tanabe Gou’s Manga Adaptations of H.P. Lovecraft), as well as the United States. One of the first books centered exclusively on close readings of an under-studied field, this collection will have an appeal to scholars and students of horror comics studies, visual rhetoric, philosophy, sociology, media studies, pop culture, and film studies. It will also appeal to anyone interested in comic books in general and to those interested in investigating intricacies of the horror genre.
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